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Industry Reality: Bread & Wine: What it takes to grow a glass of wine (Part Three)

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Retired farmer Johan Simons explains why the old joke still holds: to make a small fortune from wine, begin with a large one. What follows is a conversation about living soil, natural yeast, weeds, wildfire and an industry increasingly kept alive by money made elsewhere.

First report: Japan researchers testing paper-and-plastic wine bottle as greener alternative to glass — mainichi.jp, 8d