The concept entails the incorporation of measures to reduce greenhouse gases, to save water and energy, as well as sustainable economic and social practices.
Sustainability has become in recent years a powerful promoter of consumption in all sectors, including wine. Thus, according to data collected by Wine Intelligence for IWSR COVID TRACKER 2021, consumers are influenced by drinks that offer sustainability guarantees.
The history of sustainability and wine goes back further than most industries. The remarkable incidence of the climate on the wine sector makes it a propellant agent of innovative solutions. Thus, the sector has been working for years to restore these ecosystems through prevention, innovation and commitment to sustainability in all its aspects, whether economic, sociocultural or environmental, are important for the sector.
Organic wines already have a long journey and more recently have witnessed an evolution in sustainability with, for example, biodynamic wines and natural wines, which take the concept beyond. Sustainability also includes measures to reduce greenhouse gases, to save water and energy as well as sustainable economic and social practices.
These are 10 examples of sustainability in Bodegas de Rioja.
Marqués de Riscal
In July 2020, the Marqués de Riscal Hotel expanded its facilities by adding 18 new rooms to the existing 43 and installing a photovoltaic solar self -consumption system in the Bodega and Hotel Complex of Marqués de Riscal in Elciego. The initiative is part of its sustainable and efficient strategy in energy terms, after achieving the ecological certification of all its vineyards in wheel.
The first phase of this system consisted of the installation of 312.3 KWP, distributed in a total of 961 photovoltaic solar panels. The energy generated by the installation is destined in full to its hotel and allows savings of 30% of its electrical consumption and will avoid the emission to the atmosphere of more than 127 T C02/year or up to 3,200 T C02 during the 25 years of operation of the installation.
Wineries Beronia
Beronia has become the first winery in the world to achieve the sustainable building certification LEED V4 BD+C: NC (Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design) and Leed Gold. Granted by the ‘Us Green Building Council’, recognizes and distinguishes those buildings that have a sustainable construction and with low environmental impact.
Its environmental design, the revolutionary system for the use of geothermal energy to heal facilities and achieve lower energy consumption, together with the technological innovations that it binds, make it one of the most efficient and sustainable wineries in the world. In addition, thanks to its design and operation, the interior environmental quality is ensured for its occupants and visitors in relation to thermal, light and air quality with intelligent CO2 detection systems, as well as with the use of healthy products and materials and environmentally responsible materials.
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Izadi, which means nature in Spanish, honoring its name, has worked in recent years to implement sustainability measures that take care of the environment in which it is located. All this work now has its reward with obtaining the Wineries for Climate Protection certificate, the most important program promoted by the Spanish Federation of Wine (FEV) and with broad international recognition. This certification recognizes those wineries committed to sustainability and ecology.
For Lalo Antón, manager of Izadi, this certificate means "one more step in our commitment for a better future, for respecting what we have in hand and that future generations receive a great legacy."
Bodegas Izadi has opted in recent years to reduce the carbon footprint by minimizing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), improve water management, and reduce waste. Similarly, he has struggled to optimize energy resources, as well as practicing organic viticulture in some of his vineyards.
BAIGORRI BODEGAS
Bodegas Baigorri participates in the Newfeed project, an initiative that seeks to take advantage of the waste of the grape scrape through the food industry of bovine and beef. The objective of this project is to promote the circular economy to reduce environmental impact and costs in agricultural production. Newfeed seeks to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of alternative economic resources from improved by -products of the food industry. In this case, it will be the scrape of grapes that becomes and take advantage as animal feed.
This project is part of the commitment of the Samaniego winery for a sustainable project developed in recent years and complements the recent implementation of photovolletic solar panels in the cellar, so that the most modern technology is integrated with the least environmental impact. In addition, thanks to LED lighting they save 40% energy, use ecological labels and capsules, procedures to reduce the consumption of water and natural products to apply and control diseases caused by phytopathogenic.
Bodegas de la Marquisa
The commitment to the sustainability of Bodegas de la Marquesa and for trying to obtain the greatest possible energy efficiency, has also led them to the installation of photovolletic panels to generate their own energy and save both in consumption and in CO2 emission.
In addition, the winery received in 2021 the accreditation of as a member of the Euskadi Tourism Ethical Code for incorporating social responsibilities and environmental and economic sustainability to wine tourism. The principles of this ethical code are, among others, sustainability, respect, diversity, preserve heritage and culture.
Bilbain Bodegas, Bodegas Campo Viejo and the Sigis Project
In its objective of improving sustainable practices in the wine sector, Grupo Rioja participates, through Bilbainas and Bodegas Campo Viejo wineries, in a new research project to develop an intelligent system of intelligent sexual confusion management for Lobesia Botrana in vineyards (Sigis).
The Sigis project will take advantage of the advances of IoT (Internet of Things) and artificial intelligence (AI), to develop a new intelligent system for the control of L. Botrana adapted to the characteristics of La Rioja, which will allow maximizing its effectiveness and contributing to its prevention in a climate change scenario.
The system is based on the combined action of electronic traps, aerosols devices connected to the Internet and weather stations. The traps will detect the presence of adult insects in real time, delineating the flight curve of each area automatically and sending this information to the cloud. At the same time, weather stations and electronic traps will collect temperature and humidity information from the study areas. This information will be analyzed by means of AI to determine the plague development patterns and determine a model of development of the same based on the captures of the traps.
of Ecomethod certificates.
Lentisco Viña - Villota Wines
Viña del Lentisco - Vinos Villota has become the first risisosoja warehouse in obtaining the Ecomethod certification for its reduction in CO2 emissions in agricultural production. ECOMETHOD offers a tool to agricultural companies to increase their benefits, thanks to the best nutritional techniques and at the same time helps them differentiate themselves in the market thanks to the certification of reduction in CO2 emissions. It is a nutritional technique that allows to replace, or partially reduce fertilizers applied traditionally in crops in favor of specific foliar nutrition programs, significantly reducing the carbon footprint - CO2 emissions to the atmosphere - (up to 90%), respecting the environment and maintaining the quantity and quality of crops.
Riojan wineries
Riojan wineries y Laboratorios Excell Ibérica colaboran para alcanzar un modelo de producción más sostenible y eficiente. Estas dos empresas abordan un nuevo proyecto de I+D+i relacionado con la optimización de los recursos y la digitalización de la energía. Entre los objetivos fundamentales se encuentran la minimización del consumo de agua y energía y la reducción del empleo de dióxido de azufre. Sostevin premiará además a los viticultores que sean más respetuosos con el medio ambiente.
The innovation and collaboration project between Excell Ibérica and Bodegas Riojan laboratories will study the application of the Ecodesign at the critical points of control of the productive cycle of wine, using the knowledge acquired in previous projects. It will analyze the critical points where there is a higher water and energy expenditure throughout the productive cycle of wine and include environmental measurement studies, as well as a process of digitalization of energy. All this guaranteeing the microbiological quality of wines.
With this new initiative, the Centenaria Bodega Riojana advances in achieving the 2030 sustainable development objectives, initiated with previous actions, such as the ‘Paraje Project’, the implementation of photovoltaic energy and others such as the one developed to improve the quality of the wines through ‘Next Generation’ techniques.
Piérola Group
The Winery-Hotel Fya, from Navarrete, is committed to renewable energies such as the rest of Piérola Grupo Bodegas. In this sense, the project follows the line initiated in Bodegas Piérola in Moreda, with the installation of the first wind mill in the self -consumption regime that is carried out in Spain and that allows producing all the energy consumed by the winery.
The Winery-Hotel Fya that is decidedly committed to a new model of warehouse and hotel that combines the elaboration of high quality wines, committed to the land on which it is based, with wine tourism, culture and sustainability. The installation of a solar garden supplies most of the energy that the winery needs.
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