Good shout

Isn't that the reason for Fairtrade wines?

Apropos R, the University of Auckland has a plaque commemorating Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentleman, and the birthplace of R.

It hard to know who supplies grapes from outside, but I am guessing that there will reports that will list how many are small family concerns (say 10ha or less) vs memebers who have acquired additonal properties over the years and now are more company orientated

Howevet any quality food establishment that use "tipple" goes in the bin

Bit tricky as the owners of the coop probably do include lots of family vineyards. Making it worse is the coop model can be better situation than beingba small supplier to corporate wine conglomerate.
So I would view this as potential positive

Perfume standards are interesting especially when made from natural components. However they tend to be more complex mixtures than single molecules. They are also hard to modify the background wine or concentration. I think everyone agrees about LNDV

@ridesmith.bsky.social you might like them. Pure compounds for training. What better way to learn about beta damascenone than to to smell and taste the pure version at different concentrations in different backgrounds ie water, red wine, white wine, sparkling

Also see www.cara-online.com/sensory-mana...

The safe way is flavour standards. Pharma grade chemicals stabilised in carbohydrate matrix and the quantified by HPLC. See www.flavoractiv.com/about-flavou...

Considering foils, soft plastic and hard plastic don't stop oxidation, a few mm of oil is not going to do much