Last night I took a break from my insane schedule as of late to celebrate my newly established aunthood with vino at Terroir, a new wine bar on 12th St. in the East Village.  The variety and quality of wines is impressive, but expensive. Well, except for one… the $7 Malbec that was poured from a box!!! There were a few reds on the list that weren’t much more by the glass, but I chose the Malbec because it offered something different:   Malbec, Yellow + Blue - 2007, Mendoza The Malbec grapes are grown organically, hand harvested and cold-femerented. The wine is aged in a tank and than shipped to Canada where it’s packed in the Tetra Pak.  The mission of Yellow + Blue (=Green) is to reduce the carbon footprint of wine production and importation.  I pulled these facts from the Terroir web site:  —A full wine bottle is 55% wine and 45% packaging—A full one-litre tetra pak is 94% wine and 6% packaging—The total energy to produce 1 Tetra Pak is 1/3 the energy required for a glass bottle—The total greenhouse emissions for the Tetra Pak is 20% that of a glass bottle—In a landfill, 20 Tetra Paks will equal the space of 1 glass bottle In the end, the Malbec was pretty okay. It didn’t exactly have the smooth finish I enjoy, but it was rich and full flavors like plum and cheeries, which is the reason why I always order Malbec or Pinot Noir. 
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Last night I took a break from my insane schedule as of late to celebrate my newly established aunthood with vino at Terroir, a new wine bar on 12th St. in the East Village. 

The variety and quality of wines is impressive, but expensive. Well, except for one… the $7 Malbec that was poured from a box!!!

There were a few reds on the list that weren’t much more by the glass, but I chose the Malbec because it offered something different:  

Malbec, Yellow + Blue - 2007, Mendoza

The Malbec grapes are grown organically, hand harvested and cold-femerented. The wine is aged in a tank and than shipped to Canada where it’s packed in the Tetra Pak. 

The mission of Yellow + Blue (=Green) is to reduce the carbon footprint of wine production and importation. 

I pulled these facts from the Terroir web site: 

—A full wine bottle is 55% wine and 45% packaging
—A full one-litre tetra pak is 94% wine and 6% packaging
—The total energy to produce 1 Tetra Pak is 1/3 the energy required for a glass bottle
—The total greenhouse emissions for the Tetra Pak is 20% that of a glass bottle
—In a landfill, 20 Tetra Paks will equal the space of 1 glass bottle

    In the end, the Malbec was pretty okay. It didn’t exactly have the smooth finish I enjoy, but it was rich and full flavors like plum and cheeries, which is the reason why I always order Malbec or Pinot Noir.