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Are you drinking boxed wine? Popularity rises for 'sustainable option'

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 9 Jan 2024, 9:58am
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Are you drinking boxed wine? Popularity rises for 'sustainable option'

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 9 Jan 2024, 9:58am

A top winemaker is backing the rise in popularity of cask wine. 

Also known as boxed wine, the packaging has long put off many wine connoisseurs. 

But a glass bottle generates 1.25 kilograms of carbon dioxide in production, and James Dicey, co-owner of Bannockburn Winery, says cask wine is a far more sustainable option. 

He says a lot of drinkers are being converted. 

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