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Yellow + blue make green: a new organic malbec in TetraPak
A new wine made from certified organic Malbec grapes will soon be available in the United States. But instead of a bottle, the wine will use lightweight packaging known as TetraPak, traditionally...
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Poll: Styrofoam or cardboard for your wine shipping?
“I have too much Styrofoam.” That was the “problem” that a wine writer confessed to while introducing himself at a recent wine writers conference. There comes a point in the wine lovers’ evolution...
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From Japan, observations about wine, carbon and classrooms
An MIT professor whose research focuses on energy and the environment is currently teaching Masters students in Sustainability Science at the University of Tokyo. He contacted my co-author and me about...
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Kickin assyrtiko in Santorini
I had a wine that came from a nest today. The vineyard manager would probably call it basket or even ampelies. But to me it looked like a nest. Granted, I was only looking at a photo–if only I could...
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Six natural wines for summer
Hot weather. Cold wine. And patchouli. That’s the subject of a short piece that I did for the new Hearst website, The Daily Green. Well, OK, I didn’t get to mention any patchouli. Click through and see...
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An $18 bubbly showdown: Puzelat vs Strohmeier
An $18 bubbly showdown! Well, it was and I didn’t even plan it. Some friends came over recently and we each had a bubbly ready to go. So what are wine lovers to do? Why, open them both, of course!...
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Box wine: responses to your comments on Drink Outside the Box
Thanks so much for the reactions to my op-ed, “Drink Outside the Box,” in Monday’s NYT. The interest astonishingly drove it to the #1 most emailed story on nytimes.com! (And then some guy named Mikhail...
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Talking and tasting climate change and wine at the AMNH
Come spend a night at the museum! I can’t promise that Ben Stiller will be there or that the dinosaurs will come alive but hopefully it will still be a good show. As a part of the launch to their new...
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Make your own bubbly–water, that is
Perhaps this holiday season you will get the $5k winepod to make wine at home. For my birthday a few months ago, I got a gift that gave me the ability to make something a little less exciting: water....
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Cork dork: Ten cool things to do with leftover wine corks
After uncorking a bottle and enjoying the wine, probably most people throw the cork in the trash. Certainly there’s worse waste: It’s not as if there are junkyards full of corks, and since they are the...
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A Bridge Runs through It – Mosel edition
Things are heating up in the Mosel–and it’s not just global warming. Mike Steinberger posted on Slate about planned demonstrations last Friday to protest a “four-lane, mile-long highway bridge across...
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Corkfinger and cork recycling
In the classic Bond film, Goldfinger tries to corner the world market for gold. Is Amorim trying to do the same thing for cork? Already the largest producer of wine bottle corks, ripped from the bark...
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Green Party gains halt the Mosel bridge project
These prime vineyard sites in the Middle Mosel were to get this $500 million bridge: But now it will remain like this… …thanks to Green Party gains at the recent state elections. Read more. Raise a...
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Ontario to heavy bottles: keep out!
Remember those obnoxiously heavy bottles that were all the rage before the recession? Well, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario has told them they are not welcome. That’s right, to be sold...
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Wine in a can: boon or boondoggle?
When you get a wine in a can, does the sommelier let you sniff the lid? And place it on the table during dinner? The Telegraph (!) reports on a study that shows alternative wine packaging is on the...
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