Snoqualmie Winery gets greener with new eco-capsules
Snoqualmie Winery has partnered with Rivercap (rivercap.com) to add more green to their wine lines. The capsule company, located in Benicia, CA, and the winery in Paterson, WA, have joined forces to produce a sustainable wine package with the release of Absolute Green Line (AGL) eco-designed wine capsules.
Increasingly, consumers demand sustainably produced products, and winemakers are eager to extend their environmentally responsible farming and winemaking methods to wine packaging. Rivercap AGL is an ecological alternative—a capsule fashioned with bio-based polyethylene (PE) produced with sugar cane and water-based inks, instead of oil and solvents. Sugar cane is a renewable resource, and like all plants, it absorbs green-house gases during cultivation. This, together with the move from solvent-based inks to water-based inks, means that the Rivercap AGL capsule reduces its emission of CO2 by 80%.