The wine sector can contribute to efforts aimed at mitigating climate change and restricting greenhouse gas emissions. REDWine will establish a simple biorefinery inside a winery that will generate sustainable and cost-competitive ingredients for food formulations, cosmetics, agriculture and wine production. The project is led by the AVIPE association in partnership with 11 related entities.

Motivated by an urgent need to mitigate climate change and, particularly, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food value chains, REDWine focuses on the utilisation of biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the wine fermentation process for microalgae biomass production and valorisation. A powerful synergy across bio-based industries results in REDWine’s innovative circular business model, which allows wine manufacturers to efficiently treat their liquid and gaseous effluents while profitably diversifying their revenues through the valorisation of chlorella biomass into multiple high-value ingredients. The REDWine concept will be realised through the establishment of an integrated ‘Living Lab.’ This will demonstrate the technical and economic viability of a system for collection and storage of the off-gas and liquid effluents of a 20 000 L wine fermenter and its adaptation to microalgae cultivation and energy efficient harvesting technologies, in order to use 90 % of the CO2 collected to produce biomass. 

REDWine will demonstrate a circular concept through the development of a simple biorefinery to be deployed in the winery, which will yield sustainable and cost-competitive ingredients for food formulations (protein and fatty acids), cosmetics (peptides, carotenoid rich oils and active polysaccharides), agriculture (carbohydrates such as vine biostimulants) and wine production (proteins for wine clarification). The proposed REDWine solution is expected to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the entire wine production value chain by at least 31 % while potentially generating over € 15 million in revenues and creating 45 new jobs for a 7 ML size winery on a three-year time horizon. REDWine is led by primary producers, the AVIPE wine producers’ association, in partnership with 11 other very committed entities, including seven small and medium-sized enterprises, one large enterprise, two research and technical organisations and one university. The proposed consortium assures all the needed multidisciplinary knowledge and level of redundancy required for effective implementation of the project.

The project will create a number of new cross-sector interconnections in the bio-based economy.

These include:

• linking the grape producing agriculture cooperatives with microalgae production;
• linking wine production with microalgae cultivation; 
• linking the wine sector with the food and cosmetics sectors; and 
• linking the carbon capture sector with the food, cosmetics and agriculture sectors.

It will also establish a new bio-based value chain, running from farmers and winemakers to consumer products and will formulate four new types of consumer products:

• vegan seafood; 
• natural cosmetics;
• biostimulants/biopesticides; and 
• an eco-friendly, potentially vegan wine. 

The project is relevant for cities and regions that are working on a Circular Systemic Solution in circular bioeconomy and are exploring cross-sectorial collaboration potential between the actors in the above-mentioned sectors.

Programme:

• H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Programme:

• H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Avipe-Associacao de Viticultores do Concelho de Palmela
Contact the project

• A4F ALGAFUEL SA
• ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION
• INLECOM COMMERCIAL PATHWAYS COMPANYLIMITED BY GUARANTEE
• LIPOTEC SA
• ALGAMA
• PERVATECH BV
• COLDEP DEVELOPPEMENT
• NOVIS GMBH
• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE SETUBAL
• IDENER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AGRUPACION DE INTERES ECONOMICO
• Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P.