Raising awareness among stakeholders and spreading best practices
Since 2014, Rémy Martinis the only House of Charente to offer winemakers customised training on environmental certification, with the support of the French Chambers of Agriculture and inter-trade associations. This personalised guidance for each level 3 HVE environmental certification is provided individually to each winegrower and in the form of group workshops. Actively committed to developing more sustainable practices in the region, the Centaur brand thus hopes to accelerate the number of partners mobilised for sustainable agriculture in the region. This year, all winegrowers already HVE - certified have renewed their certification.
"True to the spirit of the House of Rémy Martin, we place emphasis on a personalised approach to training. We're proud to support our wine growing partners throughout the entire process by organising workshops, visit, and meetings, along with practical scenarios, thus helping them to move forward with bringing their farming operations into compliance. This process is often fraught with challenges, and we help make it clearer and more seamless. Playing a key role in this support and in the winegrowers' adoption of the approach is very rewarding for me, and for the whole Cellar Master team." Valérie Baumann, Consulting Engineering Viticulture - Oenology, House of Rémy Martin
The St-Rémy distillery, using supplies sourced only in France, works hard to strengthen the quality of its supplier relationships. In keeping with SDG 15, St - Rémy organised a presentation and awareness meeting with one of its main distillers to inform it of the Group's virtuous practices and CSR approach. To enhance the reliability of its Eaux-de-vie sourcing, the brandy House is interviewing cooperatives via questionnaires to ascertain their level of commitment and involvement.
Valuing the environmental excellence of its partners: the Centaurs of the Environment
Since 2018, the House's partners that have obtained H V E certification in the past year, are rewarded at an annual ceremony, the "Centaurs of the Environment". These awards demonstrate the accelerated mobilisation of our partners in the environmental certification process:
- In 2018: 70 winegrowing partners rewarded.
- In 2019: 88 winegrowing partners rewarded.
- In 2020: 62 winegrowing partners rewarded.
This year, despite the health situation, the Minister of Agriculture expressed his congratulations and encouragement to the House and the certified winegrowers in person.
To promote knowledge sharing and help winegrowers to deal with new digital tools, the House of Rémy Martin organised a conference on tomorrow's viticulture, with the contribution of experts. At its Estates, the House has been testing precision viticulture for several years to enable winegrowers to gain a more thorough understanding of the vineyard, thus facilitating decision-making and missing the environmental impact.
