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You've heard of reduce, reuse, recycle, and have you also heard of refill?

In the words of Edible Santa Barbara: In an effort to reduce their carbon footprint, Municipal Winemakers sell their wines straight from the tap, in reusable glassware, sealed with convenient swing-top closures.

By using washable glass containers, these wineries not only decrease waste and energy expense, they are also able to reduce transport, labor and per bottle packaging costs, a savings they hope to pass along to the consumer. Labels, cork and glassware can cost the winery up to four dollars, but with reusable containers, customers pay for the bottle with the initial purchase and can return for discounted refills of their favorite wines.

I LOVE this. Chuck and I went to the winery tonight and bought a refillable liter of this Syrah. Unfortunately he won't be able to try it since i will be taking it with me tomorrow...

Here.

In the morning i'll be driving about three hours east to a ranch near the Sequoia's. I'll be spending the weekend with about fifteen girlfriends, some going back all the way to kindergarten! it's our annual (sort of, more like whenever we can make it happen) girlfriends get-a-way.

This is something i look forward to more with each passing year. Here we are two years ago in Bend, Oregon. When i am with these girls (there will be even more friends this time, thank you facebook) i feel like i'm back in highschool, oh the fun we have! I'm almost ready to go... I've got my wine, now where did i put my cowboy boots?

Have a great weekend sweet friends (i wish you were all coming too, couldn't we have a big blog meet-get-a-way?).

♥ lori

p.s. if you live in the Santa Barbara area (and you like wine) check out Municipal Winemakers here. They are even entirely paperless, i signed for my receipt on an ipad and then they emailed it to me. so cool.