What our Positive Impact Report means for you.
In June we published our Positive Impact Report 2026: forty-odd pages on carbon footprints, ISO certifications, carbon in-setting scheme and waste audits. It's thorough. It's honest. And if you're busy, you’ll skim most of it.
So, here's the short version: what it actually means for you.
1/ Lighter bottles, fewer breakages.
From 2026, the glass bottles used for our own-label hits two targets: weighing under 420g and containing over 50% recycled content. This translates to lighter cases, less breakage in transit, more room in your warehouse and ours. Win-win.
2/ Certified on the environment, reliable because of it.
We picked up ISO 14001 certification this year with zero non-conformities - a rare result, according to our auditors. What that buys you isn't a badge on our website. It means the systems behind your orders, from warehousing to logistics, are audited, documented, and built to hold up under scrutiny. Fewer surprises, more reliable fulfilment.
3/ Renewable energy costs locked down.
Since October 2024, 100% of our electricity has come from renewable sources under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement. Yes, it’s good for our carbon footprint, but it also means our energy costs aren't at the mercy of the same price spikes hitting the wider market, which helps us keep pricing steady for you.
4/ Faster, more consistent deliveries.
Our fleet mileage dropped from 229,791 to 182,359 miles year-on-year, made possible through more efficient routing and order management, which equals more predictable delivery windows for you.
Plus, half our London deliveries are now made using electric vans. With lower energy, maintenance, and tax costs per mile, we have further reduced our carbon footprint while also cutting costs for the business.
5/ Better wine, not just better optics.
Since 2025, we've been running a regenerative viticulture project across 220 hectares and eight wine regions, monitoring soil health using satellite technology from Deep Planet. Early results show healthier soil holds nutrients and water better - meaning more resilient vines and more consistent fruit, year on year. We're doing this because it makes better wine. That it sequesters carbon too is a bonus.
6/ A cleaner clear-up.
Every wine event we run, from bespoke masterclasses to walkaround trade tastings, follows a circularity policy that's kept us at 99% recycling. For a venue hosting one of our tastings: your waste liability for that event is handled properly without you having to think about it. If you're a restaurant or retailer under growing pressure from EPR and waste regulations, watching how we segregate at scale is a free look at a system you could apply to your own operation.
7/ We're still learning
Making some mistakes is one of the challenges to implementing big changes. Natural gas use at our Beith site rose 54% this year, driven by a fault in our heating controls. It's fixed now, and it's the reason our total emissions ticked up despite progress elsewhere. We are committed to providing you with complete transparency, so you can be confident that you'll hear about both our setbacks and successes directly from us, rather than finding them buried in a spreadsheet.
8/ Not just our word for it.
We're members of the Porto Protocol, an international network sharing best practice in sustainable wine production, and Wine in Moderation, the trade's responsible-drinking body. We also support The Drinks Trust, which looks after wellbeing across the industry. None of that is a badge for the website. It means you can be confident that the standards behind this report are being checked against something outside Alliance, not just against ourselves.
It's taken six years to build the systems behind this report, but the point was never the report itself. ISO 14001 means the environmental management standards behind every order you place with us are audited, not just claimed. And the early results from our Carbon In-setting Project point to something that matters just as much to your choice as it does to the planet: better, more consistent wine from the vineyards we work with."
says Marta Juega Rivera, PhD, our Head of Positive Impact
Read the full Positive Impact Report 2026 - the details are all there, but if you take one thing from it, take this: this isn't sustainability instead of good service. It’s sustainability built to make ordering from us easier, cheaper, and more reliable.
