Evora, Portugal (PRWEB) October 31, 2022 Portugal’s Comissão Vitivinicola Regional Alentejana (CVRA), aka Wines of Alentejo, attributes the growth to U.S.
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Producers in the Portuguese winegrowing region of Alentejo whose vineyards encompass about 18,000 hectares, or almost a third of the country have made significant gains in sustainability under the guidance of the Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Program (WASP).
Launched as a membership program in 2015 by the Comissão Vitivinicola Regional Alentejana (CVRA), WASP offers a certification path that aims to tackle environmental and societal challenges while reducing operational costs and improving the economic health of its members.
“In developing WASP, we benchmarked the most relevant international schemes on sustainability, being strongly inspired by the OIV [International Organisation of Vine and Wine] guidelines as well as [those established by] the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance and Wines of Chile, due to the similar characteristics of these [three] regions,” says João Barroso, sustainability manager at the Alentejo Regional Winegrowing Commission, which works