With the recent unveiling of Washington State’s newest sustainable viticulture program, Vinewise, Pacific Northwest wine grape growers now have access to three regional programs dealing with sustainable viticultural practices. While all three programs focus on keeping the wine industry viable for the long-term, each tackles the issue in a different way. In Oregon, Low Input Viticulture and Enology, Inc., known as LIVE, is a certification program for growers and wines, with a third party performing audits. Vinea, a program developed by Washington’s Walla Walla Valley grape growers, is patterned after LIVE, but currently has no certification component and places greater […]