Sustainable Business Oregon
New organic wine label launched in southern Oregon
Saturday | 28 May 2011
By Christina Williams
Two southern Oregon winemakers have teamed up to to launch a new organic wine label, called Sullivan/Steele.Rogue wine country's sole certified-biodynamic winery, Cowhorn Vineyard & Garden, and Upper Five Vineyard, the region's only certified-organic winery partnered on a limited production of 2010 Sauvignon Blanc. Only 144 cases of the Sulivan/Steele wine, named for Terry Sullivan of Upper Five and Bill andBarabara Steele of Cowhorn, will be released.
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Oregon winery joins bottle reuse program
Thursday | 21 October 2010
By Christina Williams
The Rinse Project will join forces with Brooks-based Agri-Plas and Stockton, Calif.-based Wine Bottle Renew to ship bottles between the Cowhorn winery's estate to a bottle-washing station in California. The hope is that other wineries in Oregon will sign on to the program.
Barbara Steele, co-owner of Cowhorn and organizer of the project said that the washed bottles are both "cleaner and greener" than new glass and can actually result in better wine.
The winery reports that of the 300 million cases of wine sold each year in the United States, 70 percent of the bottles are still ending up in land fills — not recycling centers.
