While it was all a bit bonkers, there was a strongly international flavour to last week's giant Wine Paris event. Plus: what I've been drinking on the road in Portugal since then
Fascinating as usual. I had no idea about Greencroft. I was labouring under the obviously outdated impression that wine had to be bottled before it was exported to help ensure it actually is what it says on the label.
Thanks! Much wine sold in the UK was bottled here by importers until the 1970s, then that declined hugely until the last 20 years or so: now between 40-50% of wine sold in the country is bottled here after transport from (mostly) the New World in 24,000-litre flexitanks (one fits inside a half-length shipping container.) Going to a big bottling plant is an eye opener! I plan to write on this properly sometime soon
Fascinating as usual. I had no idea about Greencroft. I was labouring under the obviously outdated impression that wine had to be bottled before it was exported to help ensure it actually is what it says on the label.
Thanks! Much wine sold in the UK was bottled here by importers until the 1970s, then that declined hugely until the last 20 years or so: now between 40-50% of wine sold in the country is bottled here after transport from (mostly) the New World in 24,000-litre flexitanks (one fits inside a half-length shipping container.) Going to a big bottling plant is an eye opener! I plan to write on this properly sometime soon