Client & Sponsor (Cup For Cup)
When you visit Southbrook's website, you'll read the above tagline, "Better grapes, better wines, better world". Southbrook certainly lives up to these statements: their facility is organic, biodynamic, Regenerative Organic Certified, treats its wastewater onsite, and they produce their wine in a LEED gold certified facility.
Southbrook is a Cup For Cup program participant that replenishes all of the water that it uses to operate its’ winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
In a quest to reduce their environmental footprint and reduce energy costs even more, they had a conventional energy audit performed that identified opportunities to reduce electricity consumption by 5% with an average payback of 20 years. Southbrook subsequently retained Enviro-Stewards, who were able to identify opportunities to reduce both electricity and natural gas consumption by 40% with a 4-month payback. Due to the significant electrical energy savings associated with the opportunities identified by Enviro-Stewards, Southbrook required 1/3 less solar panels to provide the balance of their electrical needs. The original number of panels would have had to cover a ½ acre of vineyard. Therefore, energy conservation resulted in preserving vineyard capacity to produce 50 cases per year of VQA wine. You can learn more about this award-winning project at this Clean 50 webpage link.
As part of this collaboration, Southbrook sponsors the safe water project by donating 5% of wine sales to the project until May 31st when customers enter "CupForCup" in the Add Gift Message box at checkout in their online store.
Sponsorship Support Tracking:
Safe Water Points
11
Projects
People With Safe Water
66
People
Volume of Water Provided
180,000
Litres/year
GHG Emissions Avoided*
27
Tonnes/year
*Access to safe water avoids the need to boil water. These ‘suppressed demand’ credits are not certified, although they were allowed under the Paris Accord.