France is one of the world’s largest and most renowned wine producers, and consumers are attracted to French wines because of the country’s reputation for its viticultural heritage, flavor, and quality.
Shipping bottles of wine from the Gallic nation to far-flung destinations might delight the palate of wine drinkers far from French soil, but it still comes at an environmental cost—glass bottles are heavy and fragile, increasing the amount of greenhouse gas pollution emitted in transportation compared to lighter materials like cardboard.
