Sustainable Wine Growing

Have you heard about sustainable wine growing? Essentially, it’s all about how grape growers can better use energy and water to create efficiency. The Sustainable Winegrowing Australia (SWA) organisation focuses on land and soil, water, biodiversity, energy, waste, and people and business.

SWA has announced that now is a great time to join the organisation, as this is the time of the year when members collate and provide their sustainability data. This data leads to the availability of useful benchmarking reports in October and the compilation of regional and national reports.

If you are interested in joining, sign up here to receive a short email series with tips to help you get started or join straight away here.

In other sustainability news, the SWA working group has been busy reviewing the program’s metrics and workbook to ensure the content is simple, best practice, practical to apply and nationally relevant. In addition, the workbook is now aligned with the vineyard and winery certification standards, which means that it can be used as an internal audit or ‘checklist’ of things to do when preparing for or maintaining certification.

For more information about any aspect of Sustainable Winegrowing Australia, visit the website or contact the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) helpdesk on helpdesk@awri.com.au or 08 8 313 6600.

• Topics:

• Wine / Viticulture
• Rural Roundup