We sat down with CEO of Napa Green Anna Brittan to get down to earth on sustainable wine and how the program works.
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The Wine Siren: Why the urgency of a truly farm-to-table sustainable winery today?
Anna Brittan: The wine industry is the canary in the coal mine for climate change, and the impacts are happening NOW. Fires, drought, increasing high heat days are all making it essential that the industry take action and increase resource efficiency, reduce their carbon footprint and do what they can to adapt. When most people think about sustainability and wine they think about the vineyard, and that is essential, but we also have to recognize that there are often just as many opportunities to save energy and water, reduce emissions, and take care of employees and neighbors on the winery side. It’s critical to think about the whole system.
Wine is the premier agricultural product – it captures global attention, meaning our leadership can be an outsized force for change. Here in Napa County we have the opportunity, as a globally celebrated wine region, to use our platform and influence to serve as a force to transform the industry. We have to get more growers and vintners onboard in making sustainability and climate action an
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