Being a Guardian reader, you may have clocked it’s Fairtrade Fortnight, and if you’re also a Co-op customer you’re no doubt buying Fairtrade wine. I say this because the supermarket sells 76% of all the Fairtrade wine that’s sold in the UK – 60m litres of it – which also makes them the largest retailer of Fairtrade wine in the world. Plus, all their South African wine is Fairtrade, something I honestly don’t see why other supermarkets can’t emulate.
Fairtrade basically means a percentage of the money you pay goes to community projects, like the secondary school in La Rioja in Argentina that was partly funded by sales of wines, such as the Co-op’s attractively priced, hugely gluggable Fairtrade Bonarda Malbec (13%). Buy the most recent 2022 vintage rather than the 2021, though.
