Our Practices
In The Vineyards
The same assets that make Washington a great place to make wine – low rainfall, ideal weather, phylloxera-free growing and few vineyard pests, and great soil – give us an advantage in our ability to implement sustainable vineyard practices relating to water and pesticide usage.
Snoqualmie’s vineyard sustainability program is in place in all of the winery’s vineyards and currently focuses on three main areas in which our viticulture staff continually analyzes and fine-tunes operations: pest, soil and plant, and water management.
In The Winery
Joy has always believed that the best wines are made with excellent grapes and little intervention or processing. This philosophy makes Joy a natural to lead the sustainability and organics efforts at Snoqualmie.
In the winery, Joy and her team are currently focused on increasing sustainable methods in four major aspects of winery operations: energy conservation, winery water conservation and quality, solid waste reduction as well as employee safety.
