Joseph Phelps Vineyards

With our new "green" implementation, guests at JPV will notice a few changes around the tasting room and winery. All water bottles will now go into clearly labeled recycle containers. Most of our paper products and office supplies contain post-recycled material, and disposable items are now compostable or biodegradable, such as utensils made of a corn base to eliminate non-recyclable plastic.

All the standard items such as plastic, glass, aluminum, cardboard and paper is recycled, as well as corks, foils, shrinkwrap and bubble-wrap. In our summer bottling run we recycled over 600 lbs of shrink-wrap that was diverted from the garbage.

At JPV we are all working and learning new ways to be more sustainable and environmental. We will be getting solar panels at Innisfree, our production building, and retrofitting the lighting to be more energy-efficient. Our landscaping is composed mainly of drought-resistant, native plants and we have precise irrigation strategies in the vineyards to eliminate unnecessary watering.

Over the past four years JPV has changed all of the janitorial cleaning products to environmentally friendly, non-toxic and chlorine-free to eliminate the use of toxic chemicals. All winery sanitation and cleaning products are chlorine-free as well.

We also believe that education is very important: on our intra-company website we have a “green folder” that is updated with new green ideas and what we can do as a company and in our personal lives to be more sustainable.

At JPV we are proud to see the fruits of our labor by having reduced our garbage pickups by half and increased our recycling by 50% in this past summer alone. We look forward to continue to find ways to become a greener, more sustainable winery and hopefully a role model for others to do the same.