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Popularity of grassroots grant sees 128% increase year on year in sustainable grape and wine certification in McLaren Vale


Popularity of grassroots grant sees 128% increase year on year in sustainable grape and wine certification in McLaren Vale
July 13th, 2021
Image: Rachel Williams, Grower Engagement Officer MVGWTA, Janet Klein, Board Member Landscapes SA Hills and Fleurieu, Richard Leask, Leask Agri, and Jennifer Lynch, General Manager MVGWTA. Credit: MVGWTA
Over the past six months, a massive 850 hectares of additional vineyard area in McLaren Vale has been independently audited and certified in Australia’s national sustainability program for growers and producers, Sustainable Winegrowing Australia (SWA).
As a successful Landscapes SA Hills and Fleurieu Grassroots Grant program recipient, funding received by the McLaren Vale Grape Wine & Tourism Association (MVGWTA) enabled the delivery of subsidised training and certification of McLaren Vale winegrape growers to the national sustainability program. ....

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Sustainable Wine Australia (SWA): Dr. Longbottom's Young Frankenstein (without the funny bits)


by Dudley Brown
Image adapted from the film Young Frankenstein featuring Dr. Mardi Longbottom from AWRI and SWA – Sustainable Winegrowing Australia as “Little Frankie”
The purpose of certification systems of any sort is to communicate integrity between distant producers and consumers. At their best, they provide an assurance meaningful enough to sway a purchase toward a certified producer thereby creating a flywheel effect of better behaviour, better products and increased uptake by producers and consumers alike.
Given that the purpose a certification system and an associated “trustmark” is to communicate integrity, it is the minimum expectation that the the system of assessment used, the people who develop and administer the system, the system of certification and the certifiers employed all need to be transparent, fair and free from any appearance of conflicted interests. ....

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