World's first sustainability seal

SA WINE INDUSTRY INTRODUCES WORLD'S FIRST SUSTAINABILITY SEAL

Look out for a new seal on bottle necks. The local wine industry has launched the world's first sustainability seal as a guarantee of eco-friendly production.

 

Issued by the Wine and Spirit Board, the seal on bottled wines, is backed by a sophisticated tracking system in which bottle content can be traced back to source at every stage of the supply chain to confirm the integrity of the production.

The voluntary system is available to those wineries that have passed the accreditation of the Integrated Production of Wine (IPW), consisting of a set of sustainable principles, at farm, winery and bottling levels.