The environmentally friendly wines are different in the way they are grown and produced. No synthetic chemical fertilizers, pest repellants or chemicals should be used for health and scientific reasons. The healthier the microscopic organisms in the soil are, the more nutrients absorbed by the vines. These nutrients help increase aroma-compound production in grapes and are responsible for the characteristics of the land in which the grapes were grown.

Old vines tend to grow balanced grapes year after year and ensure consistent phenolic compounds between vintages. It causes old vines to fruit such reliable grapes are their deep root systems as they feed on underground water supplies during droughts and remain virtually unaffected if oversaturated with rain to produce undiluted juice.

Single vineyard wines particularly attract the drinkers who seek out the experience of tasting the territory as the grapes come from one source. This allows grape growers to focus more on the vines.

Vineyard sites designated as carbon neutral are devoted to curtailing or levelling carbon emissions through natural practices. Although carbon dioxide is a natural product of winemaking, total emissions can be reduced by using non-carbon-based fuels, lowering bottle weight to reduce transportation costs, and making efforts to reduce energy usage by harnessing the energy generated through solar and wind power.

An observant Jew must begin, activate and operate every step of the process, including the fermentation, standardization, and sample taking for quality control. With this being said, egg whites are allowed in Kosher wines for clarifying the process.

Sustainable winemaking refers to all long-term efforts directed toward agriculture that is humane, economically viable, socially just and able to satisfy human food and fibre needs. This includes site-dependent practices focused on enhancing natural resource bases and using nonrenewable resources as efficiently as possible.

Some wineries have taken the initiative to reduce waste in order to be more environmentally friendly. The use of recycled material to make their bottles lighter, energy and resource efficient move cutting out extraction, transportation and synthesis of crude oil are a few ways modern vineyards are going green.