Making everyday an Earth Day

As Earth Day approaches every year, we grow reflective, challenged by the perennial question, “what more could we do?”

What more could we do to reduce our environmental footprint? To help simpatico partners succeed in doing things right? To widen the audience, thirsty for more ecologically minded growers and winemakers? What more could we do for our planet, wild habitat, and the health of our friends and family, vineyard workers and winemakers? This year we are handing out millions of bee-friendly wildflower seeds to create more forage for our local pollinators. These are non GMO annual and perennial wildflower seeds, each in a plant-based, compostable envelope.

There is always more to be done and our ecologically minded endeavors at The Wine Company gain momentum each year. Our ever growing list of Sustainable, Organic, Biodynamic and Vegan wines expands year on year and has never been more enticing. Not merely for the sterling principle involved but the quality of these wines. Our commitments go on and on. From reducing our carbon footprint to minding our company garden and wildlife habitat, from championing wineries powered by renewable energy to embracing solar power for all our needs at The Wine Company.

Solar Edge dashboard link

Track megawatt hours harvested from our solar garden clicking above to our SolarEdge Dashboard

By working together, our ongoing commitments become yours in turn. Buying wines from the growers who follow sustainable, organic and biodynamic methods, we embrace them in turn. Retailers and restaurateurs championing our imports from The Wine Company permit these worthy wines a wider reach, and thereby allow our greater networks in turn, a regular opportunity to take part in this constant endeavor, of making every day an Earth Day.

We thank you for your interest in our sustainable initiatives, for supporting our Sustainable, Organic, and Biodynamic selections, and for our combined commitment to #makingeverydayanearthday.

Flipping the switch!

The Wine Company to become Minnesota’s First Solar Powered Wine Distributor

Committed to sustainable initiatives at every turn, The Wine Company is going solar! As an importer with a strong focus on sustainable, organic, and biodynamic wines, it comes as no surprise that many wineries in this wish-list of a portfolio are solar powered as well. Ever conscious of the ecological impact of each decision at every turn, The Wine Company decided it was time. Why wouldn’t you? In an age of global warming and the climatic upheaval in response, migrating to solar power is the right thing to do -not only for its common sense but the dollars and sense of it.

Thanks to an enormous, exposed roof regularly bathing in daylight, The Wine Company has plenty of room to spare for two massive solar arrays totaling 188 solar panels. Altogether this solar garden is capable of 150,000 kilowatt hours -an annual output providing enough electricity to power the average Minnesota household for nearly seventeen years!

Our Earth receives more energy from the sun every hour than all the people on the planet consume every year. Sunlight provides a boundless renewable energy -not only to ripen all the grapes in all the vineyards sourced by The Wine Company but also to power their temperature controlled warehouse, offices, and entertaining areas that host every sort of educational trade tasting. Now Minnesota retailers and restaurateurs, and wine lovers at large can rest assured that The Wine Company’s commitment to the environment doesn’t end in the bottle itself but proves a raison d’etre and a shining example of what is to come.

Care to explore solar powered wineries
brought to Minnesota by The Wine Company?

Just explore some of the solar powered wineries here:

Alexander Valley Vineyards
Badger Mountain & Powers
Bethel Heights Vineyard
Carol Shelton Wines
Cline Cellars
Domaine Drouhin Oregon
Failla Wines
Frog’s Leap
Goldeneye
Green & Red Vineyard
Jacuzzi Family Vineyards
Left Coast Cellars
McManis Family Vineyards
Miner Family Vineyards
Chateau Montelena
Mount Eden Vineyards
Ponzi Vineyards
Powers Winery
Ridge Vineyards
Shafer Vineyards
Trefethen Vineyards

With these you can celebrate a brighter future powered by solar
Exemplary wineries behind some of the United States’ storied vinelands