Château Maris in the “The New Yorker”.
2025/10/07
Supply-Chain Problems? Try a Cargo Schooner
The crew of Grain de Sail, a sailboat carrying a load of French biodynamic wines—without the carbon emissions of a cargo ship—hoists the mainsail and floats into town.
Not too long ago, Olivier and Jacques Barreau, twin brothers from France, who had no experience with export or with wine, founded a company that ships biodynamic wines across the Atlantic. Their aim: ninety-nine-per-cent-carbon-neutral shipping. (The global shipping industry creates almost as much CO2 as the entire continent of South America does.) Their method: the world’s first modern cargo sailboat.
