The Bottle Harvest - we need you! Looking for 2000 used Burgundy bottles that we will collect, sterilise, and re-use in bottling the eagerly anticipated first UK vintage from Sophie Evans. Can you help?

Working with growers on home turf has been really inspiring, and has opened up a huge opportunity to massively reduce the waste created by producing, shipping and selling wine.

We've already had success collecting cardboard from customers for lots of our English winemakers to recycle as packaging but we're excited to be taking the process a step further.

Our dream is to see as many wines produced in the UK bottled in re-used glass as possible. Schemes like this exist in other parts of the world, but as far as we're aware there's nothing quite like it in the UK. London is in a unique position now, being such a centre of consumption, increasingly surrounded by accessible areas of production.

Over the next two weeks, we need to collect 2000 bottles for the pilot run of this project: that really means just 20 bars & restaurants within London saving us 100 bottles each!

If you have a premises and can save empty bottles - drop us a message! We'll collect them in our electric van when we're passing, or if you work with us already, when we swing by to deliver your order this week or the next.

So far we have been successfully collecting bottles from Ducksoup, Highbury Library and Joyce Brockley and 161 Food + Drink - their support has been amazing, but we need to cast the net much wider. Bottles will need to be boxed up for us to collect, but we will take care of the rest.

Our ultimate goal is not unrealistic but is broad in scope, and whilst bottle collecting is a priority, if you have any other support you can offer, please get in touch.

Please, spread the word!

2000 bottles is a drop in the pond of what London must surely get through in a week and we're confident we can reach this first milestone, but we're determined to continue to develop a very exciting solution to a very real problem.