So my name is Chris Thomas, I am the Winemaker and Managing Director for Dowie Doole Wines. And right now we're sitting in our California vineyard where the brand new Dowie Doole tasting room is being built. Sustainability, generational farming, I guess is very very important to Dowie Doole, we feel like we are custodians of the land here, and it's our responsibility to look after it for not just our generation, but the following generations to come. And that will make, wine making in this region sustainable for the longterm.

So sustainability was a key part of the development of the Cellar Door, and choosing the site and everything that's gone into the building. So the key part of the Cellar Door design right from the start was trying to be, I guess energy neutral, or even putting back in, feeding back into the grid. so we're trying to have zero impact in terms of power consumption. So, we've designed the building all around the most effective angles for the solar, right from the initial design that the architect did. Brought in early in the piece to advise us on the most effective panels that we could use, that gave us a high ratios of energy output, and they gave us a more effective output per area. And with the size of the Cellar Door here, isn't huge, so having an effective output per square metre, was very important in the selection of the panels. We liked the design aesthetic and we love that, reliable and of high quality so, and good value for money in that as well.

The air conditioning in this building was actually a real challenge to be honest, because we are sitting inside two shipping containers essentially. So we're restricted by the size of the containers obviously, and we didn't want to have a biggger air conditioner sort of that didn't look nice hanging out. So we've gone with a sort of in-built system, I guess, which actually gave us the best output for the size. So, which was really important obviously when you've got the restriction in size with the containers. It was yeah, a good choice I think, it's working beautifully at the moment.