On behalf of Vinventions, CE Delft and Sevenster Environmental have reviewed the final draft Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for wine (version 04) on one specific aspect: the compulsory inclusion of biogenic carbon sequestration in vegetation and soil as additional information in PEF reports for wine and the methodology to be applied for determining the amount of carbon sequestered.
We conclude that this methodology contains several flaws, with respect to both the LCA methodology and scientific calculation rules laid down in the report::