Ethical Weddings Fairtrade Fortnight Challenge - Day 10: Wine
Mar 7th, 2007 by Alex
Happy International Women’s day!
“ My dream is to have a good job that will give me a good salary so I can send my children to school to study a higher education. I hope to live sufficiently and not depend on others. I want to encourage others and I want others to love and respect me.”
Cambodian Woman quoted in Hagar’s newsletter which arrived today to mark International Women’s Day (Hagar is an organisation working with vulnerable women and children though social programmes and social enterprise Hagar Design Ltd , Hagar Soya Ltd and Hagar Catering)
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Today’s challenge is perhaps one of the easiest, and I know many couples have included fair trade wine to their weddings celebrations already.
A really good place to start your search for the fair trade wine is of course the Fairtrade Foundation, which has a webpage dedicated to Fairtrade Wine, Beer and Spirits with a list of stores that stock them. This includes (alphabetical order): Asda; Booths; Co-op Stores; Broughton; Pastures;M&S; Sainsbury’s; Somerfield; Spar; Tesco; Threshers; Virgin Wines; and Waitrose.
Alternatively if you want to purchase fair trade wine online (including mixed cases) I’ve found: Ethical Superstore; Pure Wine; Smithfield Wine; and Traidcraft. While I was searching I also noticed ‘fair trade wine tasting’ events advertised around the country, as part of Fairtrade Fortnight – maybe something to think about ?
Additionally for today’s challenge, I decided to go ‘out and about’ in Sheffield to see what I could find. I managed to get to Asda, Co-op, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, Threshers, and Waitrose, and would like to say very big thank you to all the members of staff who took the time to talk with me about fair trade wine, weddings services, and fair trade issues.
All the stores had fair trade wine available, and most noted that sales are on the increase, particularly over this Fairtrade Fortnight. In testament to which in one store I found only one, lonely Fairtrade red wine left sitting on shelf next to a large empty space where the others had been!
From my trip out I’ve concluded that it’s probably best to search on the internet first, to see what you’re interested in, who stocks it, and what type of service they can arrange for your wedding (i.e. delivery to the venue, glass hire, sale or return, wine tasting…) before going to the supermarket itself.
Well I think it’s time to have that glass of red wine now (no I couldn’t just leave it all alone on the shelf like that…?!)
Alex