IWCA Newsletter OCTOBER 2023 |
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Opening Message from IWCA Executive Director Charlotte HeyIWCA continues to forge ahead with our mission: encouraging the wine business to reduce carbon emissions. Spreading the word about climate change and what we can do to mitigate it within our sector is a priority; and as you’ll read in this newsletter edition, we are working hard to building strong relationships with leading retailers, influencers and press, and wineries around the world to put climate action at the forefront of the wine industry’s agenda. We would be delighted to receive your ideas and support to grow our movement; please reach out anytime! |
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Announcing New IWCA Supporters We welcomed the Asociación Viticultura Regenerativa and the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation as IWCA Champions. These two organizations at the forefront of promoting regenerative practices in the wine sector will collaborate with IWCA on knowledge exchange and awareness building. And last week, we were thrilled to announce our first Media Champion Karen MacNeil, CEO of WineSpeed and author of The Wine Bible. Karen will donate 10% of the proceeds from corporate subscriptions to the WineSpeed newsletter to IWCA. We are honored to partner with such an important figure in the wine world to advance climate action in the sector! |
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Expanding our Movement Our collective of leading wine companies continues to grow in numbers and in ambition! In the past three months, we have welcomed four new Applicant Members: Abadía Retuerta (Spain), CedarCreek Estate Winery (Canada), Domaine Bousquet (our first member from Argentina), and Viña Concha y Toro (Chile)! They grow our movement to 45 wine producing companies across 11 countries, across them encompassing over 130+ wineries and brands. We also recently celebrated major Member milestones: Yealands Estate Wines (New Zealand) achieved IWCA’s prestigious Gold Member status! The company met IWCA’s rigorous standards to achieve Gold level, including demonstrating a consistent reduction of emissions per liter of wine over time and powering at least 20% of their winemaking operations with onsite renewable energy. Champagnes Piper-Heidsieck, Rare & Charles Heidsieck (France), Sogrape (Portugal), and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates (United States) reached IWCA Silver Status! Since joining IWCA, these leading wine producers conducted a third-party audited GHG emissions inventory across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 and publicly committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050.
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A Seminar on Emissions Reductions with Arhold Delhaize In September, we co-organized a virtual educational session with Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food and beverage retailers. Speaking to over 100 wine producers and suppliers, IWCA and Ahold Delhaize’s international sustainability and buying teams spoke about the importance of calculating GHG emissions and devising a roadmap to reduce them. As the wine industry’s most respected and rigorous climate action certification, we were proud to collaborate with Ahold Delhaize — an influential industry leader amplifying sustainability as a core tenant of business. We look forward to further engaging retailers in the coming year as we recognize their essential role in driving an industry-wide shift! |
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Welcoming New Members of the IWCA Board of Directors This month, we inaugurated two new Members of IWCA’s Board of Directors: Adrian Chitty of A to Z Wineworks (United States) and Mafalda Guedes of Sogrape (Portugal). They were elected among our membership. Along with our six other Board Members, they will provide strategic leadership to our organization across our membership-building, communications, and partnership efforts. We thank outgoing Board Member Rob Symington of Symington Family Estates for his years of service, during which he was instrumental in helping build IWCA’s voice, reach, and organizational foundations for impact. |
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| | Takeaways from Climate Week NYC: What’s Next for Climate Action in Business IWCA’s Board Member Julien Gervreau shares key messages that resonated throughout Climate Week NYC in September, from corporate strategy to the rising tide of mandatory GHG data disclosures. His takeaway: IWCA and our members are ahead of the curve when it comes to trends in ESG, particularly when it comes to mandatory climate disclosures coming down the track. | | |
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| | A Case Study on Glass Lightweighting: Lessons Learned from Crimson Wine Group In October, we convened a member roundtable discussion on a “hot topic” in the wine community: glass lightweighting. Nicolas Quillé of IWCA Member Crimson Wine Group shared the winery’s journey from 576 gram bottles to 395 gram bottles—a shift that saved literal tons of CO2 and hundreds of thousands of dollars. We captured the discussion in our latest blog post. | | |
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| | How this board is bringing the international wine community together to fight climate change >> |
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| | Miguel A. Torres urges more wineries to join the fight against climate change >> |
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| | The Path to Zero-Emission Wine Shipping >> |
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We are a collective of like-minded wineries and supporters who actively exchange learnings and information about reducing GHG footprints. We’re reinforcing the wine industry’s position as a symbol of resilience in the face of climate change. >> Become a member winery >> Partner with us |
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