Carbon dating wine
08-Jan-2020 22:54
NEW YORK — While sipping a glass of wine one evening, wine enthusiast Tyler Colman began to think about the impact that particular wine, which happened to come from South America in a particularly heavy glass bottle, had on the environment.That thought prompted him to begin examining wine production, from vineyard to wine glass, and "how the path that wine takes to get to us contributes to the carbon footprint of wine," he said at a lecture on wine and climate change here recently at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
I’ve never understood the complexities of a fine wine, so I’m totally in Kate’s corner on this one.
The decay process takes time and there is value in being able to express the rate at which a process occurs.