As the world grows more conscious of the earth's fragility, I continue to be amazed at the utter disregard for the environment that some wineries have.

I'm referring to the weight and thickness of some of the bottles that now house some of our most expensive wines.

I recall the days when a box of wine, containing 12 bottles and the liquid inside them, weighed 34 pounds. This meant that bottles weighed 2 pounds, 13 ounces each. Bottles were made of a lighter glass; they were slig ...

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