Wine Bottle Reuse For Ontario Wineries

While working to bring reuse to the grocery market, Circulr was approached by a Niagara based winery about if our reuse processes could be applied to the wine industry. Stratus Vineyards, a sustainably minded winery based in Niagara-On-The-Lakehad already worked hard to make their winery as sustainable as possible through gravity flow operations, LEED building certification, and more. Their next step was to amke their packaging as sustinable as posisble through the age old practice of reuse. 

In 2023 Stratus collected 50 cases of empty bottles that had been poured for customers in their tasting room. These bottles were collected, delabeled and washed by Circulr, then sent back to Stratus to refill with a wine from their 2023 bottling year. The result of the project was a first the first wine commerically bottled in Ontario using reused bottles.