We believe being Carbon Neutral is just the beginning.
We believe every business has a duty of care to minimise its impact on the environment, which is why Lanchester Wines and the wider Lanchester Group, which includes Greencroft Bottling, has worked tirelessly over the last decade to ensure sustainability is at our core.
There is, unfortunately, no ‘one size fits all’ solution when it comes to sustainability and so we’ve invested considerably to identify which changes we can make to lessen our effect on our planet.
Our business’ greatest opportunity to make a change is through minimising our reliance on fossil fuels. As such, we’ve invested around £13million in renewable heat and energy generation at our sites across the North East of England and today our business is powered almost completely by renewable wind and solar energy
Our three wind turbines produce up to 5 million kWh (kilowatt hours) of clean, renewable electricity per year, which we use to run operations at our Greencroft Estate (including Lanchester Wines and Greencroft Bottling).
We have a 41 kilowatt solar array on the roof of Lanchester Wines’ office complex, which is calculated to produce enough clean electricity to cover our day-to-day use. The chemical reactions which occur within solar panels are more efficient at cooler temperatures so County Durham’s bright and sunny, yet rather chilly, weather is perfect for our solar panels.
We have installed 3 Megawatts of solar panels on the roof of Greencroft Two which will create around 2.8m kilowatt hours of electricity per year
We actively seek business partners and suppliers who share our vision to proactively improve their sustainability. Each of our wine suppliers has adapted to their environment and social surroundings, and used the resources available to them.
Download our guide to Lanchester Wines’ sustainable bulk wine supply LanchesterWinesBulkSustainability
Read more about our commitment to working with sustainable producers here.