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jobs . The use of flexitanks also allows Australian wines to significantly lower their carbon footprint from the vineyard to the shelf , which is important in the UK market where many retailers include carbon footprint information on product labels .
“ This was highlighted a few years ago at a major wine show where the carbon footprint of a bottle of New Zealand wine on a UK supermarket shelf was much lower than the footprint of a bottle of French wine on the same UK supermarket shelf ,” Frogbrook says . “ To put that in perspective , Auckland is over 12,000 miles away from London while Paris is only 200 miles away – the carbon footprint per litre when shipping wine in bulk across the world is tiny .” Bearing in mind that depending on the style of the wine and its region of
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