Trade bodies have welcomed recently announced changes to the UK’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme, which could cut back the costs associated with glass waste by up to an estimated 40%.
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Independent Champagne producer Maison Bruno Paillard has announced that it is ending its use of transparent glass bottles in an effort to cut carbon emissions.
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International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA) has announced the election of Anne Bousquet, the co-founder and co-CEO of Domaine Bousquet, and Enrique Valero, the CEO of Abadía Retuerta, to its Board of Directors.
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Domaine Bousquet has become the first Argentine winery to certify under the new B Lab Standards V2 while renewing its B Corp status.
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Familia Torres has joined up with entertainment resort PortAventura World to create what it calls a “reuse circuit” for more than 8,000 wine bottles.
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Familia Torres has announced the release of Mas La Plana’s 2020 vintage, which celebrates 50 years of winemaking history – spanning the leadership of both the fourth and fifth generations of the Torres family.
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A group of leading wine buyers from the UK, EU and US have announced at this year’s Sustainability in Drinks (SID) conference that they are joining forces to help more growers move towards regenerative farming.
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Alternative packaging business the Canned Wine Group has announced its acquisition of New Theory – a South African low-intervention wine brand.
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Wines of Alentejo (CVRA) has unveiled its 390g lightweight bottle as it enters its final testing phase, with market launch planned for the end of 2027.
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Leading Argentinian organic winery Domaine Bousquet has announced the launch of Native, a new range of natural wines which contains Bousquet’s first ever orange wine – a 100% Torrontes created with skin-contact maceration.
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Sustainability in Drinks (SID) has confirmed its lineup of speakers for 2026, with more than 60 experts from both the sustainability and drinks worlds coming together for a day of discussion, ideas and action.
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Spanish expert Sarah Jane Evans MW presents a personal selection of just some of the many great winemakers driving the scene forward.
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Leading Romanian wine producer Cramele Recaș has finished its earliest-ever harvest, with picking this year beginning a full month early.
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As we transition out of the hottest summer on record and as effects of the supersized El Nino threaten to take hold in far corners of the world, it’s easy to see why we need to do more to fight climate change. The spirits trade (like any other industry) is a contributor to global warming and on the flip side is also an industry seriously threatened by it. After all, spirits and alcohol begin life as agricultural products, born of the land.
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Burgundy- and Languedoc-based wine production group Delaunay Vins & Domaines has achieved B Corp certification, making the company one of only 24 such businesses in the French wine industry.
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Ahead of importer Liberty Wines’ Autumn Portfolio Tasting tomorrow (Tuesday 15 September), Harpers caught up with CEO Tom Platt to discuss a strong past year of trading for the distributor, with “double-digit” sales growth; the importance of adapting operations to customer feedback; and Liberty’s landmark 30th anniversary next year.
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Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Languedoc (CIVL) – the trade body representing the region’s AOP and IGP wines – recently relaunched the Viti-Incendie programme which aims to help the region’s producers tackle the risk of smoke taint due to wildfires.
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MDCV UK, the company behind the Kent-based Silverhand Estate, has achieved B Corp certification, highlighting its sustainable commitments.
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Professionals from the wine and gastronomy sectors in the Sierra de Gredos have launched the Gredos Vivo Platform, which calls for viticulture to be recognised as a tool for protecting the land and preventing wildfires.
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Champagne Drappier has reported the earliest-ever harvest in its over-200-year-old history, after growing conditions it described as “remarkably warm and dry”.
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