Environmental Management

CJ Pask Winery is committed to environmental management and has actively been developing systems since the mid 1990’s. The sustainable management of the company’s vineyards and winery is a fundamental core philosophy of CJ Pask.

World First

 C.J. Pask Winery was one of four wineries to achieve a world first ISO:14001 group accreditation that was acknowledged by the Prime Minister at Parliament House in 1998. “Living Wine”, as the group is collectively known, has both their vineyard and winery practices internationally certified, and are committed to the continual improvement of their environmental management systems.

Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand

The winery has been a member of SWGNZ since its inception. Kate spent five years as Chair of the SWGNZ advisory/working group, which at that time saw the introduction of the winery programme under the scheme.

The winery is focused entirely on this innovative New Zealand programme and has opted not to continue with the ISO:14001 accreditation.

Click here to learn more about Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand.

Practices

Monitoring and measuring environmental impacts is fundamental to our environmental management system. Key elements being water, power, fuel, vineyard spray applications and recycling. Standard operating procedures have been established ensuring usage of these key elements is at a minimum.

All winery waste is returned to the vineyard and incorporated into our composting operation. This, in turn, is returned to the vineyard floor. Composting and mulching are fundamental practices, along with stringent monitoring of vineyard conditions such as temperature, humidity, rain etc. 

Environmental management for CJ Pask is a dynamic process based on continual improvement. We have gained much experience during the last 12 years and the implementation of this knowledge is exciting. We believe the best is yet to come!