Peggy Furth | Source | Founder at Vine to Bar

Peggy Furth is the founder of Vine to Bar and Chalk Hill Vineyards. Are you familiar with Vine to Bar? Vine to Bar (www.vinetobar.com) is not just any luxury chocolate. It’s good for the earth and your health. And who doesn’t love wine and chocolate?

Peggy is currently talking about a new superfood and a cool sustainable story.

Good friends for decades, Peggy Furth, founder of Chalk Hill Vineyards and Winery and Barbara Banke, chairperson and proprietor of Jackson Family Wines, each already had a full slate of business responsibilities, philanthropic work and other endeavors. Making chocolate was never on their “to do” lists. That changed in 2009 when Banke, as part of a winery-wide effort to bring sustainability to the heart of the business, began a search for a productive use for her company’s pomace.

Every Vine to Bar chocolate upcycles the WellVine™️ Chardonnay Marc into delicious, earth-friendly dark chocolate. This new line uses a novel ingredient — upcycled pressed chardonnay grapes and it’s made from dried and milled grape skins, seeds, and pulp that would typically be discarded after winemaking. But a unique process transforms the residue into a nutrient-dense ingredient that also adds a fruity taste to chocolate. By using the whole grape, the company is making a difference to our planet, since less needs to be reabsorbed by the land. What was once an underutilized co-product is now a superfood that makes Vine to Bar chocolate euphorically delicious.