Edible Sacramento Fall 2022

TASTY FINDS AchesonWine Co. WRITTEN BY SUZI ALFARO PHOTOS BY ANASTASIA MURPHY

S erving up eco-friendly, affordable, quality California wine, while saving nearly 30,000 bottles from the land fills, is a business model that merits appreciation. Established in 2015, the Acheson Wine Co., located in Midtown Sacramento, sprang from owners Steve Burch and Loraine Scott’s shared vision, “to create a neighborhood winery with a comfortable, dog-friendly atmosphere while honoring Sac ramento history and doing our part to save the planet and serve the community,” Scott says. Burch (the winemaker) and Scott both have decades of com bined food-and-beverage-industry experience, and embarked on the partnership with high hopes of making a di‰erence. In honoring Sacramento’s history and family roots, the winery was named Acheson after Scott’s spouse’s grandmother, a native Sacramentanwho lived here throughout her 98 years. Further, the winery’s Solons sauvignon blanc’s name pays tribute to the Sacra mento Solons, a local minor league baseball team that played on ando‰ throughout the 1900s. On the tasting roomwall hangs a pic ture of Edmonds Field, formerly located on the corner of Riverside Boulevard and Broadway in Sacramento, where the teamplayed. In 2019, the winery pivoted from traditional bottling to o‰er ing 100 percent of its wines in refillable bottles, thereby enabling the owners to accomplish the “doing our part to save the planet” portion of their start-up vision. Instead of bottling wine in standard 750-milliliter bottles, Acheson Wine Co. stores its wine in reusable, five-gallon, stain less-steel kegs, where it’s preserved in an anaerobic environment. Thewine is thendrawnout ondemand by a tap systeminto one-lit er, reusable, flip-top bottles. Scott says this process has savednear ly 30,000 wine bottles from landfills, which translates to more

than 75,000 pounds of glass. According to CalRecycle’s web site, in a landfill, “glass bottles spend 1million yearswaiting to decompose.” Today, the original vision that set Burch and Scott inmo tion is identifiable by Acheson’s

From left: Loraine Scott pours wine for guests in the tasting room, which houses a dog bed and bowl for four-legged guests; Scott displays wine in Acheson’s unique refillable wine bottles with flip-top caps; Refilling a wine bottle from the keg tap system

tasting room; its location is not only situated across the street fromMidtown’s Truitt Bark Park, but it provides water bowls for four-legged guests , too. Additionally, the décor includes local mu ral replicas and Sacramento landmark images. Patrons visiting the tasting roomhave theoptionof sitting inside or outside, with or without their pooches. They may choose from white, rosé, or redwines, which canbe enjoyedby the glass or bottle, or may try a tasting flight of all eight wines for $15, which can be ac companiedby a cheese and charcuterie box fromGrazingCraving. Another o‰ering is a wine club membership with options to receive either two or four bottles monthly, available for pickup or doorstep delivery within a three-mile radius of the tasting room. Plus, you can find AchesonWine Co. on Saturday mornings at theMidtown Farmers Market in Sacramento and out in the com munity supporting nonprofit events year-round. Onmost days, youwill find a steady streamof customers stop ping by the tasting room to refill bottles, many enjoying a glass for good measure. The vibe is friendly, casual, and comfortable, just as Burch and Scott envisioned.

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