Controlling our footprint across our regions

Eco-design of our ‘everyday Grand Cru’

- We minimise the environmental impact of our product packaging by:

> Reducing the weight of bottles and boxes

> Recycling glass endlessly

> Recycling cork

> Recycling cardboard

> Using labels made from recycled paper in France, whitened with chalk pigments

> Gradually removing the gilding from our labels

> Recycling label glassine by joining the RafCycle programme

- Most of our dry material suppliers have an environmentally-friendly label

- Membership of the Authentis Club in 2016 and implementation of the soil enrichment protocol using organic fertilisers

- Grass cover in every other row of vines

- Under feet grass cover tests using different varieties of clover

- Lean production model to avoid waste in-house and for our customers

To improve, go further

- Accredited green building programme

- Total grass cover in the vineyard

- Removing capsules from our bottles

- Removing gilding from our labels

Technical corks recyclable

We collect cork for the French Federatiof of Cork

Clover weed test, 2019

Local commitment and relationship with our stakeholders

- 80% of the cost of products sold were spent in France

- 50% of expenditure is under 100 km by volume

- 14% of expenditure is with foreign suppliers of which 13% represents the international agent's commission

- The average duration of relationships with our suppliers is over 60 months, some of them are among the company's original partners

- Survey of our strategic suppliers (dry and bulk materials) to inform them of our CSR approach

- Support for social actions, local sporting and cultural associations, and hospitality:

>Reception for the 20th anniversary of the local Nature Club and donation of skills for its organisation

>Hosting school groups (from nursery school to university) on the property

> Organisation of introductory workshops about the industry

> Donation of skills to the University of Montpellier Foundation for handling the MPU Herbarium

>Hosting of sporting events

20th anniversary of local Nature Club, 2019

Nordic's walk, 2016

Harvest by kindergarten of Combaillaux, 2019

To improve, go further

- Renewal of the donation of skills to the UM Foundation for another heritage enhancement project

Controlling use of resources and recycling waste

- 1000 m² of photovoltaic panels generate the equivalent of 90% of our electricity consumption

- Urine irrigation tests with Ecosec

- Controlling our irrigation using the ITK connected solution

- Leach fields for water from the winery to promote development of a unique wetland ecosystem on the estate

- The vineyard subscribes to an approach fostering sustainable and continuous improvement by being a test site for a confined sprayer using retrieval panels with the French Vine Institute, followed by the purchase of the tested machine

- Implementation of the CICOVI adjusted vineyard management programme: 0 CMR, reduction of plant protection products, preferred usage of organic products when the impact is lessened

- Techniques designed to reduce our water consumption: change of method and machine during harvesting and rationalisation of water usage in the vineyard, winery and during bottling

- Recovery and treatment of all effluents