Resources
| • BEST-Winery: Benchmarking and Energy and Water Efficiency Savings Tool | |
| BEST-Winery is a software tool designed to evaluate the energy and water efficiency at a winery, and to help assess the environmental and financial impacts of potential improvement strategies. Given the necessary data, BEST-Winery calculates an energy intensity index (EII) and water intensity index (WII), performance indicators that compare the user’s winery to a benchmark or reference facility, incorporating information about winery-specific process steps and characteristics affecting energy and water use and volumes processed by the winery. BEST Winery also allows the user to evaluate preliminary opportunities for energy and water efficiency improvement, to assess the impact on the performance of the facility, and to evaluate operation costs.
This interactive, Excel-based tool provides a performance benchmark score and allows users to model over 100 potential energy and water efficiency enhancements to estimate energy and water savings and project paybacks. | |
| • Pollution Prevention for the Wine Industry | |
| Information: this report looks at the potential sources of pollution in wine making and offers solutions for improving these problems (38 pages). Date of Publication: 2002 | |
| • Sustainable Winegrowing Practices | |
| Information: this document was created by the Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers in support of a statewide Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices. The document provides tools that enable wineries to self-assess the relative sustainability of their operations and can be easily adapted to environmental management system standards (54 pages). Date of Publication: 2002 | |
• Technical Pollution Prevention Guide for Brewery and Winery Operations  | |
| Information: This guide was funded by Environment Canada as part of their Fraser River Action Plan to assist the breweries and wineries located in the Lower Fraser River basin to enhance their environmental performance and to help the industry lower their cost of waste management (101 pages). Date of Publication: 1997 | |
| • Winery Audits in Chile | |
| Information: this is a slide presentation on a series of environmental audits that were conducted at wineries in Chile (11 pages). Date of Publication: 2002 | |
| • Oregon Winery Earns LEED Certification | |
| • Stratus Vineyards | |
| Stratus in Niagra-on-the-lake, Ontario is committed to responsible stewardship of the land. As a result, the winery is the first building in Canada to achieve LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the Canada Green Building Council. Environmental sustainability is a core value of all involved in the design and operation of Stratus. | |
| • Yalumba Wine Company (Australia) | |
| Environmental Improvement Practices and Sustainable Winemaking | |