How sustainable is Californian wine? Video feature

Campbell Mattinson travels to California to see what the Californian wine industry is doing to up its sustainability game.

Earlier this year I spent five days travelling from Los Angeles to San Fransisco – following California’s Central Coast regions – to look at ongoing efforts to make the Californian wine industry more sustainable. This was a trip about the long game rather than, so much, about the here and now. The route we took included: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria Valley, Los Alamos, Paso Robles, Santa Lucia Highlands, Monterey, San Benito County and then out of San Francisco. I’d never visited the US before. I didn’t know what to expect. From the first day of the trip I found myself quite dramatically inspired; by the end of it I was moved, such was the profound impression made by the lands we moved through, and the people we encountered. This 10-minute video gives some idea of the what, the how, and of the impact of this trip.

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Campbell Mattinson is the founder of The Winefront business and is the former chief editor of Halliday Wine Companion. He’s published five books on wine, four of them bestsellers. He’s the only person to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once.