Besides organic and biodynamic wine, there are more innovative
ways to make wine making sustainable. Taking a look at the recommended readings
from Vinography.com, I found an article with 3 interesting practices for
sustainability in wine. These practices are: “living building” tasting room,
dry farming and no-till agriculture.
Here is a link to the article: https://daily.sevenfifty.com/the-next-wave-of-sustainability-in-wine/.
The following quotes summarize each of the practices.
A “Living Building” Tasting Room
“The most rigorous standard for green buildings in the
world, the Living Building Challenge (LBC) was formulated by the Seattle-based
International Living Future Institute (ILFI) in 2006. It’s designed around
seven performance areas, referred to as petals. Unlike other certifiers of
green buildings, the ILFI won’t certify a building until a full year after it’s
completed. That’s because some of the building’s petals—namely, energy and
water—require 12 months of continuous occupancy before they can be shown to
work in accordance with the challenge. The Energy Petal requires that the
building produce 10 percent more energy than it consumes; the Water Petal
requires (among other things) that 100 percent of the project’s water needs be
supplied by captured precipitation or other natural closed-loop water systems.”
Dry Farming
"After the recent six-year-long drought in California, water
conservation is on the minds of many farmers in the West, including growers of
wine grapes. As a result, the Old World practice of dry farming is making a
comeback. Why irrigate vineyards if you don’t need to—and if dry farming
creates better-tasting wines (as its advocates claim)?"
No-Till Agriculture
"Healthy soil is full of microorganisms and mycorrhizae,
which are essential for the health of your crop and which are disturbed when
you till. When you refrain from tilling, not only are you preserving the soil’s
rich biodiversity but you’re sequestering carbon and preventing erosion. Another
benefit of using the no-till approach and then planting cover crops is that the
soil becomes better able to retain moisture."
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