Discover the different parts of packaging African Dawn Wines uses, by moving your mouse over the various points on the bottle.

African Dawn Wines is the first wine company worldwide making use of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified corks. This means the corks have been harvested cyclically from organic forests that have been licensed by FSC, without harming the trees. Amorim, the cork producer of African Dawn Wines, is the first packaging company in the world to obtain FSC certification, which recognizes effective contributions to social, economical and environmental advances in forestall areas. For more information about FSC please visit the subpages 'about' and 'story'.

Unfortunately current techniques are inadequate to also develop environmentally friendly bottle caps. This means the current bottle caps of African Dawn Wines are not yet made from environmentally friendly material, while the search for an environmentally friendly bottle cap is ongoing. Hopefully, a solution will be found soon and African Dawn Wines will again be the first wine company, just as with the FSC corks, to use bottle caps from environmentally friendly material.

The bottle used by African Dawn Wines is made of glass. New types of packaging, such as PET, have arisen but the advantages of those kind of packaging is doubtful. Possible disadvantages such as decreasing quality of wine and consequences for people's health are not sufficiently investigated. The main reason for wine companies using PET bottles is the decrease in weight while transporting. African Dawn Wines meets this through transporting the wine from South-Africa in containers per boat and by bottling the wine in Antwerp (Belgium). Thus the disadvantage of the weight of the glass bottle is minimized as the bottles only have to be transported from Antwerp to other places in Europe. African Dawn Wines ensures to stay informed about new types of environmentally friendly packaging.

Besides FSC certified corks African Dawn Wines also intended to use environmentally friendly labels while developing the total concept of wines produced in harmony with nature. The result of this is a worldwide scoop of African Dawn Wines being the first wine company worldwide using FSC certified paper for their wine labels. For more information about FSC please visit the subpages 'about' and 'story'.