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Sustainability Is Important To Us

Our Production Facility

Our Production Facility

Our Production Facility

View of back side of winery, showing building set into the hillside with an overhead door for cellar

We built our winery into the hillside. The lower level contains our wine production area and barrel cellar. Being built into the hillside eliminates to need to heat or cool this space. All of our lighting is LED. Our furnishings are re-purposed or restored items that we have repaired and refinished.

Barrel Room

Our Production Facility

Our Production Facility

Barrels of wine, stacked in the barrel aging cellar.

Our barrel room is underground. The soil below the frost line stays at a fairly consistent 55-58 degrees Fahrenheit. This temperature keeps our basement walls, which are over one foot thick, cool and consistent. The area inside then stays at a fairly constant cool temperature and humidity. Our wines age for up to two years in barrels.

Our Event Space

Our Production Facility

Our Event Space

People on yoga mats in a large, timber frame room. Light fixture made out of wine barrel hoops.

Our event space is a timber frame building with a 10 inch thick foam core roof panel system. The wall panels are 6 inches of insulating foam core. This reduces our energy needs for heating and cooling. We reused old barrels to create our light fixtures. The barrel staves, unseen in the picture, created the loft railings on two sides.

Clean Energy

Sustainable Vineyard Practices

Our Event Space

Wind turbine in the vineyards.

Our Niagara Escarpment vineyard is in a sunny and windy location. To take advantage of this, we have a 10 kilowatt wind turbine and roof mounted solar panels. Together they produce most of our energy needs. We also have geothermal heating and cooling.

Sustainable Vineyard Practices

Sustainable Vineyard Practices

Sustainable Vineyard Practices

Grass, dandelions and other plants in a row of grapevines.

We have never used herbicide in our vineyards. Instead, we cultivate or mow under the vines to reduce weed growth. We keep our sprays to a minimum by employing cultural practice like leaf thinning to keep sunlight on our fruit and leaves. Wild flowers and plants in our vineyard rows reduce soil erosion and keep pollinators fed.

Clean Water and Healthy Soil

Sustainable Vineyard Practices

Sustainable Vineyard Practices

Vineyards, divided by a small stream centered in grassy headlands.

Clean water is important. We have grassy headlands near a small drainage stream that bisects our property. This prevents runoff from our vineyards from entering the waterway. We compost our used grape seeds, skins and vine prunings to provide a healthy addition back to our vineyard soil.

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