Tree-huggers advocate the use of sail ships to "save the planet"

The french are once again shipping their wines under sail, and in french fashion, they are doing it in style. No modern ship would do, they are transporting the wines on the Belem, a beautiful three-masted 19th century barque.


The 170 foot Belem, which was launched in 1896, spent years transporting chocolate from South America, and gets it’s name from the Brazilian port. The Belem is the first of seven three-masted vessels to be in service by 2013, planned to transport French wines as far as Canada.

Frederic Albert, owner of the ship. says that shipping 60,000 bottles of wine by sail will save 18,375 pounds of carbon. Every bottle transported by the Belem will be labelled: “Carried by sailing ship, a better deal for the planet”.

In Frederic's words: “My idea was to do something for the planet and something for the wines of Languedoc. One of my grandfathers was a wine-maker and one was a sailor.”

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