Our Sustainability Initiatives

Packaging
We now use lighter glass bottles for our flagship rosé wine, and all our bottles are 100% recyclable including the plastic-free labels. 

As of 2022, all our cardboard wine boxes are made from 100% recycled and FSC approved materials, printed with water-based ink, sealed with paper tape, and are 100% recyclable. In 2024 we moved away from metal screw-caps in favour of more sustainable corks for our still wines.

Recycling

We're proud that 0% of our waste goes to landfill.

All plastic and glass is recycled and all our cardboard boxes are used at least twice! Once the wine is unpacked, empty boxes are sent back to the winery to be re-used. Only once they're really reached the end of their life are they sent to our local recycling center.

Albury Vineyard is a proud partner of Recorked UK. We collect our used corks, and encourage our local customers to drop off their corks at the vineyard, so they can be donated and re-sold to raise funds for nominated charities.

Reducing our carbon footprint

As a certified organic, biodynamic and sustainable vineyard we minimise the use of chemicals and instead focus on regenerative farming.

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Wildlife Walk

Our new wildlife walk was officially opened in 2023 following two years of collaboration with Surrey Wildlife Trust and Surrey Hills National Landscape.

The trail features bat and barn owl boxes, bug hotels, bee hives, butterfly scrapes, an insect highway, wildflower meadows to attract pollinators, compost pits and a pond!

You'll also spot a huge bench, shaped like a cow horn and carved from a wonderful Redwood tree that fell on the Albury Estate. The tree was so massive that we were also able to use wood for the information signs around the trail.

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Bug Hotel

More than 80% of EU crops reply on a severely declining bug population for pollination so we were delighted to collaborate with local business Shere Kitchens to build a 5-star hotel for creepy-crawlies in the vineyard!

Children from Shere C of E Infant School enthusiastically put the finishing touches to the deluxe bug hotel inserting hollow bamboo canes and gathered sticks, moss, grass and wood to make a ground-floor nesting site for small animals as well as bugs.

Small Blue Butterfly

We've been working with Butterfly Conservation on the Surrey Small Blue Stepping Stones project to help create a habitat for the endangered Small Blue butterfly, linking up colonies across the North Downs between Guildford and Box Hill.

The project focused on creating a series of 'scrapes' to grow Kidney Vetch, the foodplant for the Small Blue. The vineyard scrape is thriving with numerous eggs and adults having been spotted!