The “Vernaccia di San Gimignano” is a white wine, the first to achieve the DOC label in Italy, in 1966.After about 50 years from that achievement, the Consortium “Denominazione San Gimignano” launched aproject for promoting environmentally responsible wine-farming among its members. The first phase of theproject involved four wine-farms to assess the average Carbon Footprint of one bottle of Vernaccia di SanGimignano (FU, 0.75 L) in order to highlight supply chain hotspots and best practices to put into effects. Aminimum value of 0.60 kg CO2-eq and a maximum of 1.34 kg CO2-eq per FU were calculated, mainly due tothe use of packaging materials. Main differences depend on the organization of farms, rather than theirmanagement (i.e. organic vs conventional). The application of best practices by farms would potentiallyallow for decreasing impacts of about 33%, in terms of Carbon Footprint.
Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG: towards a sustainable wine farming
Pulselli R. M.;
2015-01-01
Abstract
The “Vernaccia di San Gimignano” is a white wine, the first to achieve the DOC label in Italy, in 1966.After about 50 years from that achievement, the Consortium “Denominazione San Gimignano” launched aproject for promoting environmentally responsible wine-farming among its members. The first phase of theproject involved four wine-farms to assess the average Carbon Footprint of one bottle of Vernaccia di SanGimignano (FU, 0.75 L) in order to highlight supply chain hotspots and best practices to put into effects. Aminimum value of 0.60 kg CO2-eq and a maximum of 1.34 kg CO2-eq per FU were calculated, mainly due tothe use of packaging materials. Main differences depend on the organization of farms, rather than theirmanagement (i.e. organic vs conventional). The application of best practices by farms would potentiallyallow for decreasing impacts of about 33%, in terms of Carbon Footprint.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
