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Packaging wine in the 21st century
10th April 2025
We associate wine strongly with the container that it comes in. Think about wine, and we envisage it in a bottle, which we open using a corkscrew and then pour into a wine glass. Yes, wine is the liquid inside,...
Jamie Goode is a London-based winewriter who is currently wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday Express. As well as writing he also lectures and judges wine.

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