RISE 2025: Supply Chain & Waste Prevention

RISE 2025

LEADERSHIP PILLAR:

Supply Chain & Waste Prevention

WORKSHOP I: REUSE REALITY & UPCYCLING: BUILDING CIRCULAR SOLUTIONS WITH REVINO AND THE ZERO WASTE COLLECTIVE

WORKSHOP II: ENGAGING THE SUPPLY CHAIN: FROM PACKAGING TO PARTNERSHIPS

MARQUEE KEYNOTE: HERITAGE & HORIZON: A MOTHER-DAUGHTER VISION FOR WINE’S CLIMATE FUTURE WITH CATHY CORISON AND GRACE CORISON MARTIN

ASKING THE CRITICAL QUESTIONS FORUM: DO CONSUMERS CARE ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE ACTION?

SUSTAINABLE SERVICES & TOOLS SPONSORS

MEDIA GALLERY

Workshop I: Reuse Reality & Upcycling: Building Circular Solutions with Revino and the Zero Waste Collective

Get involved with two game-changing initiatives creating a more circular supply chain. Join Revino’s Adam Rack and Keenan O’Hern to explore how they’re making wine bottle reuse work in the Willamette Valley, with plans to expand to California and, we hope, first stop Napa Valley! Learn the critical elements of successful glass reuse – from standardized molds and wash-off labels to quality control and logistics. Then learn how you can join the Zero Waste Collective. Born from RISE 2023, this vintner-led initiative has established two collection facilities for film wrap, which is collected by Trex and turned into sustainable decking. ZWC is also facilitating label back recycling with Raflatac, and can support recycling of other materials, with pickup options available.

Action Opportunities:

Sign up to be a pilot partner with Revino
Support the shift to standardized glass molds
Understand expanding wash-off label options
Establish film wrap collection protocols
Implement label backing recycling

Speakers

Adam Rack | Co-Founder of Revino LLC

Adam Rack is the co-founder of Revino, a company rebuilding the reuse economy for the wine & beverage industry.

With a passion for environmental stewardship, he’s helped to prevent the use of over one million single-use bottles during his time in Oregon’s wine industry and helped to build out the keg wine market with the Coopers Hall team, consulting on keg wine programs of all sizes from small restaurants to the Oregon Convention Center and Zoo. In 2020 he launched a wine club exclusively featuring reusable bottles, leading into Revino’s work today.

He serves on the PR3 Reuse Standards Panel, is a team leader with his local emergency response team, and in his freetime enjoys guerilla gardening with his partner by spreading native plant seeds on their runs.

Cāllie Edwards | Reuse Development Director at Revino LLC

Passionate about waste reduction, environmental conservation, and working at the intersection of sustainability and accessibility. I enjoy working through collaborative projects, logistics planning and coordination, data management, and R&D. I’m a motivated, adaptable, highly organized, and thoughtful professional who brings creative solutions from inception to fruition.

Stephanie Barger | Director TRUE Zero Waste, Market Transformation and Business Development at U.S. Green Building Council

As director of market transformation & development for the TRUE Zero Waste Certification, Stephanie Barger is responsible for the growth and development of the TRUE program. Barger helped launch TRUE, which is owned and administered by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) in 2017. GBCI is the premier organization independently recognizing excellence in green business industry performance and practice globally and administers all LEED green building certifications. TRUE was acquired by GBCI in 2016 and was previously known as U.S. Zero Waste Business Council, which Barger formed in January 2012.

Barger has been dedicated to meeting the growing need for educational resources, peer-to-peer networking and third-party certification for businesses across the nation related to waste reduction and zero waste. She brings over 25 years of experience in environmental stewardship, employee training, management consulting and business development.

Megan Hernandez | Co-Chair the Napa Zero Waste Collective

Workshop II: Engaging the Supply Chain: From Packaging to Partnerships

Dive into how wineries can leverage their purchasing power to drive sustainability innovation. With packaging and distribution accounting for 40-60% of vineyard and winery emissions, learn how industry leaders are reshaping their supply chains. Spottswoode’s Molly Sheppard shares their methodical approach to emissions reduction – from annual GHG inventories, to lighter glass bottles and shipping materials, and optimized transportation. Discover B Cellars’ success with Green Cell Foam packaging, including their customer communication strategy and positive market response, and how their partnership with H&A Barrel Management ensures oak barrels have 7+ lifecycles. Plus, explore UPM Raflatac’s direct label backing recycling program and vision for the future of sustainable packaging.

Action Opportunities:

Assess the carbon footprint of packaging
Evaluate sustainable packaging alternatives
Optimize shipping materials and methods
Establish supplier sustainability criteria
Develop customer communication strategies

Speakers

Molly Sheppard | Global Sales & Environmental Manager at Spottswoode Winery

Born and raised in Victoria, Australia, Molly Sheppard has been surrounded by wine for most of her life. She attended Curtin University in Western Australia, completing a degree in Agribusiness, Viticulture, and Enology. After working in wineries in Victoria, Margaret River, and the Yarra Valley, Molly made her first trip to Napa Valley as an intern for the 2017 vintage and fell in love with the beauty and dynamic nature of Napa Valley and its wines. She returned in 2018 and joined the Spottswoode winemaking team as a harvest intern, becoming part of the team full time in 2019. Today, working alongside Aron, Molly helps to oversee the farming of the historic Spottswoode Estate Vineyard and the making of the winery’s acclaimed wines.

Molly combines her passion for winemaking with a passion for the environment. She holds a Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy through Harvard Business School Online and, in addition to helping craft the wines in both the vineyard and the cellar, she manages Spottswoode’s B Corp certification and environmental initiatives, which includes measuring our GHG emissions as part of our IWCA membership. Molly also sits on the board of Napa Green and is involved in many other community driven environmental initiatives.

Michael Garretson | Manager, Recycling and Circular Solutions at UPM Raflatac

Michael has been managing UPM Raflatac’s RafCycle program for two years. Prior to that, he worked in supply chain and organic vegetable cultivation. He is deeply passionate about waste diversion and all things sustainability.

Curtis Strohl | General Manager at B Cellars

Over 25 years ago, Curtis started working in the restaurant industry and found a love for pairing excellent cuisine with fine wines. This led eventually to the Napa Valley where he brought with him a love for the art of hospitality. For the past 8 years, he has led the team at B Cellars. He believes that the best solutions can include economic sustainability as well as environmental.

Our Oakville winery estate has been meticulously designed with conservation, sustainability, and land stewardship driving each and every decision. Our sustainability strategies extend beyond the physical attributes contained within our buildings and farming practices. They encompass an operating philosophy that bonds all of us to be mindful of the environmental impact we make in the pursuit of being the best craft wine and food experience in Napa Valley.

RISE Leadership award

Congratulations to Clif Family Winery for the RISE Leadership Award for Supply Chain & Waste Prevention for the results of their packaging emissions inventory.

Marquee Keynote: Heritage & Horizon: A Mother-Daughter Vision for Wine’s Climate Future with Cathy Corison and Grace Corison Martin

Join us for a powerful Marquee Keynote featuring the mother-daughter duo of Cathy Corison and Grace Corison Martin. With 50 years of winemaking excellence, Cathy Corison stands as one of Napa Valley’s most respected voices—a pioneer whose commitment to environmental stewardship and chemical-free viticulture has been a throughline in her career. Corison continues to evolve, with daughter Grace Corison Martin joining as Assistant Winemaker and sustainability champion, spearheading their organic CCOF certification as well as Napa Green Vineyard and Winery certifications. Together, Cathy and Grace will share insights spanning five decades of winemaking wisdom, discuss the rising generation of industry leadership, and make the compelling case for why embracing sustainability and climate action leadership is essential for the wine industry’s future. This will be an unforgettable conversation bridging half a century of visionary winemaking with the bold future of climate-conscious viticulture.

Speakers

Cathy Corison | Winemaker, Founding Partner at Corison Winery

Cathy’s winemaking journey began nearly 50 years ago when she took a wine appreciation course at Pomona College on a complete whim. She fell in love with wine for all the usual reasons, but, as a Biology major, was also taken by the fact that wine is the result of a fascinating collaboration among a series of living systems. Two years later she graduated, and two days after that, arrived in the Napa Valley, bent on making wine. A master’s degree in Enology at UC Davis followed, and then a harvest internship at Freemark Abbey in 1978. Winemaking positions included Yverdon in 1979-1980 and then Chappellet Vineyard for the 1980’s. In 1987, toward the end of her tenure at Chappellet, there was a wine inside her that needed to get out and she began to buy grapes and barrels (instead of cars and houses). Using other wineries’ excess capacity while continuing to moonlight at Staglin, York Creek and Long Meadow Ranch, Corison Winery was born.

Grace Corison Martin | Assistant winemaker at Corison Winery

Grace has been working full time at the winery since 2020, involved in many areas from winemaking and farming to hospitality and management. Grace got our vineyards certified Organic through CCOF, and got Corison Winery certified Napa Green Winery and Vineyard. She earned a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University and then worked in restaurants in NYC. Since moving back to the Napa Valley, Grace completed her Winemaking Certificate at UC Davis, and her Level 3 WSET.

Asking the Critical Questions Forum: Do Consumers Care about Sustainability & Climate Action?

Join SF Chronicle Senior Wine Critic Esther Mobley to explore how wineries can leverage growing consumer demand for business transparency and trusted, responsible products. A wealth of research shows most consumers want to support values-driven brands, but they struggle to identify responsible products at point of purchase. Explore how to bridge this gap through insights from Randi Kronthal-Sacco of NYU’s Stern Center for Sustainable Business, whose annual Sustainable Market Share Index reveals insights from analysis of 70,000+ CPG SKUs. Dom De Ville shares how The Wine Society’s ambitious climate initiatives are resonating with their UK membership, and the critical role of their global network of producers. Christian Miller with the Wine Market Council rounds out the picture with new data on eco-friendly wines and “How to Better Engage Young Adults and Multicultural Consumers with Wine.” Together, these experts unpack both the opportunities and challenges in communicating sustainability.

Action Opportunities:

Add certified sustainable logos and other messaging to packaging
Create effective point-of-sale communications
Establish easy-to-recognize sustainability indicators
Set measurable sustainability goals and combat greenwashing through transparency

moderator

Esther Mobley | Wine Critic at the San Francisco Chronicle

Esther Mobley is the San Francisco Chronicle’s senior wine critic. She reports on the business of California’s dynamic wine industry, reviews Bay Area bars, writes about the effects of climate change on vineyards, publishes the Chronicle’s popular Top Wineries lists, and sends a weekly email newsletter, Drinking with Esther. Since joining the paper in 2015, she has reported from wildfire evacuation zones, from behind the gates of a doomsday cult, and from the homes of undocumented vineyard workers. Esther was the 2019 Feature Writer of the Year in the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards, and her work has been recognized by organizations including the California News Publishers Association, the Society for Features Journalism and the Association of Food Journalists.

Speakers

Randi Kronthal-Sacco | Member Board Of Directors at GlobeScan; Senior Scholar at NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business

Randi Kronthal-Sacco (Stern ‘83) is a Senior Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Ms. Kronthal-Sacco leads CSB’s research in the areas of marketing and brands including the Sustainable Market Share Index™ and is responsible for corporate outreach.

With over 25 years of packaged goods and pharmaceutical experience, Ms. Kronthal-Sacco most recently was the Chief Marketing Officer at Rodan + Fields®. Ms. Kronthal-Sacco spent over 18 years as a Senior Executive at Johnson & Johnson®, where she served as Worldwide Vice President on two of the company’s most important franchises, Johnson’s Baby and Women’s Health. Prior to her role at Johnson & Johnson, Ms. Kronthal-Sacco served in various product management capacities for 8 years at Kraft Foods including Director, Desserts Division.

Ms. Kronthal-Sacco currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at GlobeScan. Ms. Kronthal-Sacco holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Emory University and a Master in Business Administration in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business. Her research has been cited in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, GreenBiz, among others.

Dom De Ville | Director of Sustainability and Social Impact at The Wine Society

Dom grew up on a farm in Derbyshire in England, which shaped his passion for all things farming and nature. He has worked in the sustainability field for more than 20 years, both internationally across Africa and Asia and in consultancy in the UK. Dom joined The Wine Society 2022 to launch and deliver their ambitious sustainability plans.

Christian Miller | Director of Research at The Wine Market Council

Christian Miller has worked in market research, brand and category management for over two decades. He is the proprietor of Full Glass Research, which provides market research and industry analysis for food and beverage producers and marketers.

An original member of the WMC Research Committee, he also helped launch the Wine Opinions consumer and trade panels, and directed the UC Davis OIV Wine Marketing course from 2008 to 2024. Christian’s wine industry experience includes work at wineries, retailers, restaurants, an importer and a négociant. He has marketed wine brands ranging from a few thousand cases to over a million, giving him a broad view of the industry. Christian holds a BA degree in Economics from Franklin & Marshall College and an MBA from the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University.

Sustainable Services & Tools sponsors

Amorim Cork

Founded in 1870 by the Amorim family, the company has grown to become the largest producer of natural wine cork closures in the world.

With over 5.8 billion corks sold annually in more than 37 countries, Amorim corks are the gold standard for quality and performance. The company maintains absolute control over every aspect of manufacturing through vertical integration.

Amorim Cork America is the North American sales and distribution center located in Napa, California. We provide top notch solutions that guarantee a customized approach tailored to each client’s needs.

Amorim Cork America’s sales and management team provides expert knowledge to winemakers, technical support, quality assurance managers and wine marketers in all facets of wine cork closures.

Bayard Fox Selections

A direct partner in Tonnellerie Orion in France and the sole US representative for 2B FermControl fermentation products.

Cork Supply

Cork is without doubt the material of choice for stoppers of quality wines. They protect from oxidation at the same time as they allow the transfer of oxygen suitable for their ageing.

Produced through highly sustainable methods that simultaneously protect several wild species, they are the choice with the least environmental impact of all the alternatives for wine.

Mother Nature already delivers us an almost perfect product. Thanks to the innovative practices we apply in our corks, the standard of quality and reliability becomes even higher.

The unmatched combination of quality, performance and sustainability makes Cork Supply’s natural cork the best choice for 21st century wines.

Global Package

Global Package is distinguished by our highly creative technical expertise – offering outstanding and innovative products, versatile applications through sourcing from competitive Asian, European, and domestic markets and unsurpassed quality in service and support. We are the importer of the highly regarded Wild Glass™ developed by Estal Packaging, 100% post-consumer recycled glass in dark and light glass.

IMPACKFUL SOLUTIONS

IMPACKFUL SOLUTIONS was created by combining years of custom packaging and logistics expertise, with a vast knowledge of the wine and spirits industry. Sommelier level mastery, merged with professional spirits certifications, gives us the foundation to take a vision and make it incredible. A single source for all custom packaging, fulfillment, copacking and storage solutions. We invest time in learning your business, building relationships, and creating custom solutions to fit your exact needs. We want our clients to BE IMPACKFUL.

Jonah Marketing

Jonah Marketing is a branded merchandise distributor, focused on sustainable products that fit your specific branding needs.

Sustainability shouldn’t be a buzzword. At Jonah marketing sustainability is at the heart of what we do. Sustainable branded merchandise shows your commitment to the environment while connecting with customers who value thoughtful choices.

We provide eco-friendly options that reduce environmental impact while delivering premium quality. From reusable drinkware to biodegradable materials, every product reflects your brand’s commitment to responsible practices.

Napa Recycling and Waste Services

Napa Recycling is the recycling, compost, and garbage service provider for the City of Napa and southern Napa County, as well as the operator of the award-winning Napa Recycling & Composting Facility. Recycling and composting help save resources, energy, and money. They keep materials out of the landfill, provide jobs, combat climate change, and “close the loop” through the creation of new products out of recycled materials. Through Napa’s convenient recycling, composting & waste reduction programs, we all work together towards the ultimate goal of Zero Waste.

Saverglass

Did you know that the weight of wine bottles is 40% lighter than it was 15 years ago? In fact, today, nearly 9 in 10 (87%) of 75cl wine bottles fall under the light to medium weight category.

While glass packaging is one of the most sustainable packaging materials, the industry continues to innovate in terms of technology and design to further improve its environmental impact. With extensive lightweighting efforts, bottles can be made lighter while keeping all of their qualities.

Saverglass, the world’s leading manufacturer specializing in the production and decoration of luxury and high-end glass bottles.

Teacher Resource Center of the North Bay

The Tinfoil Recycling Project is an exciting endeavor. The idea centers on the concept of recycling tin capsules from wine bottles. TRCNB supplies participating wineries with collection buckets to recycle the tin from the neck of each wine bottle. We collect the donations on a quarterly basis or earlier as needed and deliver to a local recycling business.

Click below to see our growing list of 40+ participating wineries and restaurants and how you might get involved.

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True Zero Waste

TRUE certified spaces are environmentally responsible, more resource efficient and help turn waste into savings and additional income streams. By closing the loop, they cut greenhouse gases, manage risk, reduce litter and pollution, reinvest resources locally, create jobs and add more value for their company and community. TRUE also certifies events to improve their sustainability.

Napa Green

Napa Green is a global leader in sustainable winegrowing, setting the highest bar for sustainability and climate action in the wine industry. Napa Green facilitates systematic soil to bottle certification for wineries and vineyards, and provides the resources, tools and connections to continuously level up leadership. In 2021, Napa Green was the first sustainable winegrowing program in the world to redevelop Vineyard certification standards to focus on climate action, regenerative carbon farming, and social equity. In 2022, Napa Green and community partners launched a first of its kind, six-event Climate & Wine Symposium (Napa THRIVES now RISE) with over 65 speakers and 600 total guests.