Sipped: Peter Singer, Princeton ethicist “And buying the merlot may help sustain a tradition in the French countryside that we value–a community, a way of life, a set of values that would dis...
https://www.drvino.com/2007/07/16/wine-over-water-oregon-michgan-the-dollar-sips-and-spits/
Keen readers of this site know my antipathy–nay hostility–for bottled water. I gave up the easily substitutable beverage for thirty days to offset my wine carbon footprint, allowing me to enj...
https://www.drvino.com/2007/07/09/whos-threatening-us-now-blingh20/
Yes! I made it 30 days with no (er, little) bottled water! And I’m not even living in a yurt, making clothing from alpacas that I’m raising, and eating exclusively local root vegetables. Thir...
https://www.drvino.com/2007/06/08/how-i-gave-up-bottled-water-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/
As I was watching planes take off and land last Friday at LaGuardia, I contemplated the folly of my bottled water ban. Jets roared overhead burning carbon and spewing emissions and I am doing wha...
I’m giving up water for 30 days. Bottled water that is. In the discussion of the carbon footprint of wine here last week, I floated the idea of purchasing carbon offsets to assuage carbon guilt...
https://www.drvino.com/2007/05/08/carbon-neutral-keep-wine-ditch-water/
I recently tasted the intense, fruit-forward Tikal, Amorio, 2005 (about $30; find this wine). Along with notes of dark berries, tobacco and toast, was there also a whiff of petroleum? The wine’...
https://www.drvino.com/2007/05/01/the-carbon-footprint-of-wine/