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Having spent the last 20 years actively involved and encouraging environmental best practice, Geoff now has the chance at the sharp end to apply this across all aspects of producing Pebblebed wines, from vine to wine. As many in business know, introducing environmental best practice, from sustainable farming to energy saving and waste reduction, makes sense and often saves money but it does need energy and commitment to follow through.
Our aim, quite simply, is to look at everything we do in the vineyard, in the winemaking processes, and in the distribution and packaging of our products in order to be environmentally sustainable, as well as to minimize adverse impact on the environment. We don’t have a lengthy environmental policy or operating manual but we seek to ask the following questions at the start and throughout all of the myriad of tasks we have to undertake:
What can we do to reduce the environmental impact of this activity? Is it practical to achieve and financially possible?
We look to note down in a standard way each of the tasks, main and secondary impacts and practical methods of reducing these impacts. We aim to put into practice immediately any feasible (practical and financial) changes and review on an annual basis all of these activities to plan future changes.
We also plan to work with Global Action Plan to develop our environmental ideas and systems.
We will look to share any environmental initiatives with others freely. Projects |
