{"id":13061,"date":"2022-06-15T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kapweine.ch\/fact-7-which-wine-has-the-better-co2-balance-europe-vs-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:15:03","slug":"fact-7-which-wine-has-the-better-co2-balance-europe-vs-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapweine.ch\/en\/fact-7-which-wine-has-the-better-co2-balance-europe-vs-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT #7 Which wine has the better Co2 balance – Europe vs. South Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CO2 balance for wine<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n

The fact check<\/h2>\n

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If you are an occasional wine drinker, you know a lot of European wines. No wonder, since they are just around the corner and “local consumption” or “no food waste” are new societal trends. Because everyone wants to do something good for the planet and become as green as possible, but unfortunately, the omnipresent reputation of European wines, if you look at the wine lists of Swiss restaurateurs, doesn’t help either. This is because the CO2 emissions for the transport of these wines, from the producing country to Switzerland, are in some cases much higher than from South Africa, for example.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We at KapWeine have researched and put the facts on the table!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Europe versus overseas, respectively – cleaners versus underdogs\u00a0<\/h3>\n

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But let’s start from the beginning and compare two real-life examples together. For Europe, one of the best-known wine regions in Spain, the\u00abRibera del Duero<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong><\/span>, is competing. This wine-growing region is located about 170 kilometres by car north of Madrid and about 1,500 kilometres by car from Zurich.<\/p>\n

The challenger from overseas is in South Africa, to be more precise, from the well-known wine-growing region of \u00abStellenbosch<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong><\/span>. This is about 40 kilometres by car from Cape Town’s Transnet Port Terminals Administration and about 9,050 kilometres by air from W\u00e4denswil\/Zurich. The exact mileage of the cargo will be calculated together below.<\/p>\n

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What does a typical wine delivery look like?<\/h3>\n

A trader or importer (like KapWeine) orders its wines from abroad. The wine delivery must therefore be transported from A to B, whereby time, costs and CO2 balance should be within reasonable limits. According to today’s international logistics standards, a 75cl wine bottle comes in a 6-pack and is stacked as a Euro pallet, loaded in larger quantities in containers. Thus, most pallets are loaded with 480 or even 600 wines. Depending on the volume to be shipped, the optimum must find the maximum delivery quantity in a container. The aim is to use as much surface area and space as possible without exceeding the total weight of the permissible container weight.<\/p>\n

Now you are probably wondering how many bottles of wine can fit in a container and where the limit is? But let’s not make life more complicated than it is and leave it at a simple calculation example with the following values.<\/p>\n

One wine delivery equals:<\/strong><\/p>\n