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REDUCING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT

A living soil, through its organic richness, contributes above all to carbon sequestration. It is perhaps the most important one of ways to reduce carbon footprint, essential in battling the challenges brought by climate change.

Our philosophy is not limited to the soils’ good health.

Beyond that, we are also working on other ways to reduce our carbon footprint through every aspect of our business. Our implication continues downstream from the wine production in order to cover all our trades.

The examples below highlight some of the ways we have reduced our carbon footprint:

  • Carbon sequestration by supporting soil life and maintaining areas of ecological interest.
  • Carrying out several operations simultaneously in the vineyards: reduction of the number of tractor passages in the vine rows by combining two tools on the same vehicle, at the front and at the rear, or by creating dual-function tools such as the Reptil.
  • Reduction of fuel consumption in agricultural traction by equipping fuel-efficient tractors with new generation gearboxes.
  • Isothermal tanks for energy savings during vinification and ageing of the wines.
  • Energy recovery for heating buildings via a cogeneration system installed on refrigeration units.
  • Waste reduction: a new wine filtration technique which eliminates 400 tons of transporting filtration soil waste per year.
  • Lightweight glass bottles (less raw material for manufacturing, reduced weight for transport).
  • Development of Bag-in-Box® (BIB), an alternative to glass with a more ecological weight/container ratio.
  • Preference given to local suppliers.
  • Transport of goods optimisation (distances and loading) in coordination with the carriers.

WATER SAVINGS

Integral to any cohesive environmental plan is water management. This finite resource is essential for the planet, the people and agriculture.

We built a water treatment plant on the property in 2001 to treat our wastewater. After treatment, the water is clean enough to return to the environment and can even be sent directly to the Izaute River. This is done under the inspection and regulation of official third-party experts.
Rainwater, as well as the water used for cleaning bottles, is recovered, and reused for watering green spaces and washing part of our farm equipment, thus avoiding the use of drinking water. For hygienic reasons, we only use drinking water to wash equipment that comes in direct contact with grapes or wine such as harvesting machines, harvest transport tanks, presses, tanks, and the bottling line.

The Izaute River which crosses the estate

Irrigation is authorised, and even funded, in more and more wine producing regions around Europe and throughout the world, including Gascony. However, Domaine Tariquet has made the choice to not irrigate our vines, even during periods of drought. Our oceanic climate and the associated rainfall generally eliminate the risk of water stress on the vines. As a result, irrigation in our region is most often used to increase yields. This does not fit with our qualitative objectives, nor our self-imposed mandate to reduce our water consumption.

We recognise that wine production is not a primary agricultural crop, therefore, we believe that we have a responsibility not to increase our water consumption via irrigation.

One of the lakes present at Domaine Tariquet

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