Climate Change

Celebrating  “Blog Action Day”, I feel kind of bad about driving all over the state for "one bottle'" at a time so I try very hard to consolidate my trips, staying with friends, and making trips count, plus planning on going to wine events so I can see as many winery people as I can at once. I am already using less gas than last year (based on miles per bottle collected) an hope to keep it up. I try never to come back without a full case.
The wineries are using more and more solar these days. I was just at Stoller Winery and saw the system they put in.
The list of wineries that have installed systems is impressive and growing all the time;

• Abacela
• Amity Vineyards
• Annie Amie Vineyards
• Archery Summit Wines
• Argyle
• AtoZ/Rex Hill
• Basket Case Wine
• Benton-Lane Winery
• Bethel Heights Vineyard
• Chehalem Winery
• Cooper Mountain Vineyard
• King Estate Winery
• Lazy River Vineyard
• Lemelson Vineyards
• Mahonia Vineyards and Nursery
• Pfeiffer Winery
  
• Ponzi Vineyards
• Sokol Blosser Winery
• Soter Vineyards
• Stoller Vineyards
• Torii Mor Winery
• Troon Vineyard
• Valley View Winery
• Vidon Vineyard
• Vigna Giovanni Vineyard/Barbara Thomas Wines
• Willamette Valley Vineyards
• Winderlea Wine Company
• Wooldridge Creek Vineyard and Winery

We installed a 3kw system early this year and have cut our electric bill by 1/3 already so I can only imagine what some of those huge systems are saving in terms of both money and electricity.
Please encourage those wineries who have installed systems.
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