00:00Winemaking with a sustainable twist.
00:03Defined Wines is a contract winery, producing wines from vineyards all over Kent.
00:09Here at their home in Bridge, the team have installed the UK's first winery carbon dioxide capture technology.
00:16This was developed by Cork & Capture and aims at cutting costs and reducing emissions.
00:22So what we do is we provide a service to wineries and breweries like Defined Wine that we're at today,
00:26which is to capture the CO2 that comes off tanks like this and we capture it through simple nozzles like
00:33this
00:34and we get the CO2 channeled out to our machine which processes the CO2
00:38and then makes it available to the winemakers or the brewers for reusing.
00:43But it's not just emissions Defined Wines want to tackle.
00:46Carbon dioxide is also essential for the winemaking process.
00:51So we use it to what we call gas our tanks.
00:53So before we fill a tank, we'll often fill it with CO2 to get the oxygen out because oxygen is
01:00the enemy of wine.
01:01And then we often find there's what's known as an ullage between the top of the wine and the top
01:09of the tank.
01:10And that gap we fill with CO2 throughout the year to make sure that there's no oxygen getting in and
01:16spoiling the wine.
01:17It's in these huge tanks behind me here at Defined Wine that their wine is made.
01:22The cork and capture technology takes the carbon dioxide from these tanks and into another network of pipes.
01:30But how does this impact the climate?
01:33We're doing something which almost nobody else in the whole world is doing,
01:38which is avoiding that emissions to the atmosphere and of course avoiding all the emissions related to importing CO2.
01:45So far, this winery is the only one in the UK to use this technology and it's taken a lot
01:51of teamwork to get to the launch today.
01:53I think it's really exciting.
01:55It's such a cool project to be, as you say, a world first.
02:03Getting this to work in Kent with the Kent businesses.
02:08Yeah, really, really, really excited about that.
02:10The portable CO2 tank at Defined Wines will be here for a little while longer
02:15before going on to cut costs and emissions at other wineries in Kent ready for next year's harvest.
02:21Justine Latter for KMTV in Bridge.
