CLIMATE change talks were hotting up in Copenhagen last week, from large-scale global temperature rises to the finer points of carbon footprints.
So it was surprising to learn that one of the wines chosen for a function in Denmark, hosted by Australia's Ambassador for Climate Change Louise Hand, was from South Australia, 16,000km away.
The wine racked up a whack of food miles, but despite this, Taylors' Eighty Acre wines are carbon kosher.
Taylors claims they are the first Australian wines internationally certified to have no net carbon emissions.
The company has adopted a life-cycle assessment of its carbon emissions from vine to glass and reduces and offsets the emissions with measures such as tree plantings.
Not only are the emissions from exporting the wine taken into account, so too are the emissions generated by the drinker when he drives to the bottle shop, the refrigerator used to chill the wine and the rubbish truck that collects the empty.
Taylors' chief executive Mitchell Taylor said it was a highlight for the company to showcase the world's only carbon neutral wines to such an influential group of leaders.
