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All We Can Do To Keep Growing Pinor Noir Instead Of Cabernet

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From a Treehugger slideshow piece on Sokol Blosser, the “greenest” winery in the United States.

In 2008, for the first time, the winery started tracking its overall carbon emissions with help from The Climate Registry. Sokol Blosser is one of 27 Oregon wineries participating in the Carbon Neutral Challenge Initiative, a project headed up by the Oregon Environmental Council. While the wine industry isn’t a big carbon emitter in the region, they’re going to be very adversely affected by climate change. As [winery co-president] Alison [Sokol Blosser] told me, “We’re interested in doing everything we can so we can keep growing pinor noir instead of cabernet sauvignon.”

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