Four Winds Vineyard makes Australias first circular wine using black soldier fly larvae

Four Winds Vineyard has released Australia’s first ‘circular wine’ in collaboration with hotelier Hyatt Regency Sydney and food waste innovator Goterra using millions of fly larvae. The initiative sees food waste from the Hyatt Regency consumed by the larvae and recycled onsite into a rich frass, or fertiliser, which nourishes the grapevines that are used to produce Four Winds Vineyard’s new ‘The Circular Vintage’ series. “In the circular production process, organic waste from the Hyatt’s kitchens goes directly into Goterra’s specially built Modular Infrastructure for Biological Services (MIB) unit in the hotel’s basement. Resembling a shipping container the size of a single car space, the MIB is filled with millions of black soldier fly larvae that eat their way through the food scraps, excreting nutrient-rich frass,” Four Winds Vineyard explained.