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How Climate Change Could Redraw California Wine Country Maps

"Climate change will restructure viticultural suitability in spatially complex and region-specific ways," researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, warn in a just-published paper in Frontiers in Climate. The study finds "substantial declines in climatic viticultural suitability across major

Revino Receives $4.8M Grant to Build First California Bottle Reuse Facility

CalRecycle has awarded Revino a $4,867,070 grant to establish a first-of-its-kind certified Bottle Washer Processing facility in Lompoc, Calif., that will build the infrastructure for a reusable glass-bottle ecosystem. The facility will be capable of washing 10 million glass beverage containers for reuse annually

Ashton Creek, Riverside Vines 1st to Achieve Certified Regenified in Virginia

Ashton Creek Vineyard and its sister site, Riverside Vines, are the first vineyards in Virginia to achieve Certified Regenified, meaning they have interated soil health, biodiversity and animal stewardship into one unified system. Launched in December 2025, the NRCS Regenerative Pilot Program is investing $700 million to support voluntary regenerative

Silver Oak, Etude Wineries Pilot Bottle Reuse in Tasting Rooms

Revino Inc. said it signed its first contract with two California wineries to pilot initiatives to reduce carbon waste by reusing their bottles up to 50 times. They will test practical ways to extend the lifecycle of the glass bottles they already have by improving logistics around collection, cleaning, and

Why Domaine Carneros Was Named Sustainable Business of the Year

Why Domaine Carneros Was Named Sustainable Business of the Year

When Domaine Carneros installed its first solar array two decades ago, it was at the forefront of renewable energy adoption Earlier this year, Domaine Carneros Winery received the Sustainable Business of the Year award from the Napa Chamber of Commerce, presented by MCE Clean Energy, a not-for-profit public

Why We Don't Like Bottle Bills -- Maine Version

Maine lawmakers are viewing a pot of $4 million in unclaimed bottle deposits as just ripe to pour into lake and farm conservation. And that's precisely why we don't like bottle bills – the system where people pay a 5-cent or 10-cent deposit on each

Champagne Hits the Target, Cuts Carbon Emissions 25% Since 2003

Champagne's goal of cutting its carbon footprint. which totalled 580,583 tons of equivalent CO2 in 2003, has been met, Pierre Naviaux, head of the Comité Champagne sustainability department, says. Now, Champagne is working on a plan to cut carbon emmissions an addition 2% a year, reaching net