, Concha y Toro becomes the largest producer to join the Bottle Weight Accord

Concha y Toro is the largest wine producer to join an initiative called the Bottle Weight Accord, which is designed to reduce the carbon footprint of wine packaging.

Participants commit to reducing the average weight of their 750ml still wine bottles to 420g or below by the end of 2026. That will significantly reduce their carbon gas emissions.

Valentina Lira, sustainability director at Concha y Toro, said: ‘We are confident that we are well on the way to the 420g average thanks to great efforts made by our product design, packaging, production, and sustainability teams to date.

‘This is just the first step for us as we look to continue reducing the weight of our bottles and incorporate new formats in the future.’

Five large retailers – Whole Foods, Lidl, The Wine Society, Alko in Finland and Systembolaget in Sweden – joined forces to study the average weights of wine bottles. They found that the average bottle of wine weighed 550g.

Dom de Ville, director of sustainability and social impact for The Wine Society, said: ‘Carbon emissions from glass bottles make up around 30% of our total emissions as a business, so reducing glass bottle weight is a key way that we can reach our goal of halving total emissions by 2032.’

That study inspired a British group called the Sustainable Wine Roundtable (SWR) to launch the Bottle Weight Accord initiative in autumn 2023.

It was initially supported by the retailers that funded the study, but signatories now include a

This Article was originally published on Decanter

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