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This has been a problem for those who care about the planet but don’t have endless resources; for a long time we could either pay a small fortune for eco-friendly wine or just stick to wine produced in the UK and nearby nations like France, or we could simply ignore the issues and look for wine based on cost or taste.

Now, though there is another way to achieve the best of each scenario, reducing cost, and making sure we can buy wine ethically. One mail order wine merchant, Formula Wine, actually lists their wines that are environmentally friendly and what’s more, they are extremely affordable, so they don’t cost the earth, in more ways than one.

Listing eco-friendly wines may not sound like a revolution in wine buying, but it’s less of a common practice than many would think: certainly if you look in supermarkets, even the higher end supermarkets, there is little information displayed about the environmental impact of the wine. It’s tough to know if, for example, its production caused water to be diverted to the vines, how many air miles it traveled or whether it was transported in an environmentally unsound way.

Formula Wine will give you all that information and more: because Formula Wine operates in cyber space, and so have low overheads - they don’t have to rent shops, - so they can pass these benefits on to the consumer in terms of cost, and ethical production and distribution.

True, it is great to shop locally and to support all the local shops we can, especially when it comes to food or items that we actually want to see or feel before we buy them. With these shops, though, we need to be thinking the environmental cost of storing these items: not only does it have to be transported, it has to be kept at a controlled temperature, and resources are also required to heat and light the shop. Security will need to be installed, too, and alarms and security devices all use resources.

These ‘hidden’ environmental issues cost the environment more than wine that does not have to be transported to individual shops and then displayed for the world to see. With the eco-friendly wines listed on the Formula Wine website, it’s easy to see which are environmentally friendly.

For those who are still blissfully unaware of environmental issues, Formula Wine does not disappoint, because it also has wines listed that are not eco-friendly. This means there is a choice and the prices are affordable to everyone, so you can save your conscience without having to buy wines that cost the earth - the perfect way to adopt an ethical approach to buying wine.

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