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“It’s all about producing benchmark Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay… not necessarily the biggest or the best, but wine that people around the world will hold up as great example of Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay.”
In her day job at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Te Pūkenga, Nadine talks repeatedly about the carbon cost of wine packaging – with up to 60% of the 1.28kg carbon footprint of a bottle of wine down to the production and shipping of glass.
And in her side hustle at Fugitive Wines she walks the talk of alternative packaging with business partner Logie MacKenzie, a viticulturist who is equally frustrated by the 400-year-old status quo.
Now they produce organic Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir sold only in reusable kegs and bottles, tapping into a consumer market open to conscientious change, Nadine says.
“Every time we reuse a glass bottle or refill a keg, we can halve its carbon footprint.”
