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WINE snobs may become casualties of the industry’s attempt to reduce its carbon footprint.

Drinkers consume large quantities of wine from Australia and New Zealand, and increasingly more from South America.

But the shipping costs, in environmental terms, of heavy bottles are large.

Now, as a new series of Leading Edge reveals, glass bottles may be replaced by lightweight bottles or even plastic ones.

The programme asks what impact this might have on the taste of the wine.

The programme also reports on how the wine trade is coping with climate changes, including drought in Australia.

V LEADING EDGE, BBC Radio 4, Thursday, 9pm.