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The environmental hangover from NZ's winemaking


The environmental hangover from NZ s winemaking
Farah Hancock
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Marlborough s wine industry is booming, but there s no industrial-sized solution to deal with its waste.
Sewage fungus is not what the wine industry wants people to think of when they sip a sauvignon blanc.
It was also something I wanted to avoid.
But like Marlborough s wine industry, I had a problem on my hands. I had more grape marc than what I knew what to do with.
Grape marc - or pomace - is the soggy leftover product of wine making. It s the skins, seeds and stalks of the grapes after most of the juice has been squished out of them. Roughly 20 percent of each harvested tonne of grapes end up as grape marc. ....

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