Earth-wise wineries available at one site

By Staff Reports 

Fine wine lovers searching for something more sustainable to sip on will find a new one-stop shop at ConsciousWine.com. Earth-conscious West Coast producers including Ambyth, Brooks, Cowhorn, Dominio IV, Lumos and Michel-Schlumberger are among the first wineries to set up shop on the new site devoted exclusively to estates that perform as well on the ground as they do in the glass.

To make the grade, vintners are required to create vital, great-tasting wines from sustainably-farmed, organically-grown grapes, and engage in one or more of ConsciousWine’s 12 Practices, ranging from biodiversity to water conservation to good worker policies to family farming. The comprehensive green goals are designed to showcase the best in class of the emerging holistic wine market.

Wineries are invited to set up shop on ConsciousWine.com only after Jeff Weissler, the company’s affable online wine steward whose mug makes up its logo, has personally tasted their wines and walked the estate with the vintner to verify performance on ConsciousWine’s 4 Principles and one or more of its 12 Practices. ConsciousWine customers are guaranteed that all wines available for sale in its shops are from estates that farm exclusively with OMRI-approved products. Many go much further and carry Demeter’s Biodynamic® brand, which represents some of the most rigorous and respected sustainability standards in the field.
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