Our wine list - sustainable practices

Our food and drink partner, Restaurant Associates, has worked hard to find excellent wineries that think seriously about sustainable viniculture. Below you will find more information about our current wine list, and what each producer is doing to reduce their impact on the environment, or even enriching the biodiversity of their vineyards.

Sparkling

Brut Tradition Gobillard, France, NV
Description: Pink grapefruit and sweet marshmallow with a touch of oak ageing, it has a delightful creaminess.

Sustainable practices: Gobillard's is H.V.E. Level 3 certified (High Environmental Value) and their practices align with a commitment to reducing environmental impact, promoting biodiversity in their vineyards, and employing eco-friendly production methods.

Ruggeri Argeo, Prosecco Brut, Veneto, Italy, NV
Description: Prosecco, exuding green apples and citrus. Delicate and zesty. Vegan.
Sustainable practices: Certified green energy and integrated pest management.

Bolney Wine Estate, North Downs Cuvee, Sussex, Great Britain, NV
Description: Our own label sparkling English wine with delicate lemon, lime aromas and rich brioche on the finish. Vegan.
Sustainable practices: Solar panels, renewable energy, 'lead by nature' for 75 years, local supplier, low food miles.

More about Bolney Wine Estate

The principle of sustainable management is crucial to Bolney’s continued existence and growth as a company since 1972. Their ‘Guided By Nature’ ethos sets the tone for many of our behaviours. With the mild climate and sandstone soil, they have spent many years discovering the best variety of grapes to grow in our eco system. Bolney believe that the more they understand and take inspiration from the nature around them, the more they can understand and appreciate its needs and protect its diversity and beauty for future generations.

As well as mulching their prunings back into the soil, they also have a biofilter as an effective way of safely treating and recycling water used in spraying. Bolney practise responsible waste management by recycling everything we can, including all packaging and chemical containers, used vineyard supplies (e.g. vine guards), as well as general food waste. They also source materials used in the vineyard from local suppliers wherever possible.

Bolney have installed solar panels on the roof of their new winery as well as the main building at our Foxhole site. This generates approximately 30% of the electricity used across the site and, generates up to 25KW of power which is enough to run their disgorging and labelling lines.
Waste wine and/or press juice is distilled to be made into Bolney Estate Gin and Bolney Estate Rosso Vermouth.

White

Care, Blanco Sobre Lias, Cariñena, Spain, 2022
Description: A very fruity wine with great balance - intense, crisp and refreshing. Vegan.
Sustainable practices: Waste recycling plan and energy optimisation.

More about CARE

Hailing from Cariñena DO, one of the three oldest denominations in Spain, CARE’s state-of-the-art winery produces great value wines with beautiful labels designed by local artist Enrique Torrijos. The grapes are sourced solely from their own vineyards, with four separate estates dating back to 1948, all of which are situated 15km from the winery and at high altitudes. The wines have great balance of fruit and oak due to a much shorter ageing time, with the Crianza spending only eight months in barrel. CARE wines are certified vegan.

 

De Martino, Estate Chardonnay, Casablanca Valley, Chile, 2022
Description: Ripe citrus fruit and peaches, along with a smooth palate with medium body. Vegan.
Sustainable practices: Carbon neutral producer.

More about De Martino

Ever since 1934, four generations of the De Martino family have specialised in producing wines that stand out because of their sense of place, purity and balance. To that end, they farm sustainably and use traditional vinification techniques in order to produce wines that represent them and faithfully reflect the vineyards they come from. Today, with a track record spanning more than 80 years, the winery brings together the experience of the third generation with the dynamism and vision of the fourth, represented by Marco Antonio and Sebastian De Martino, who along with winemaker Nicolas Perez, lead the winery's projects. Add to the fact that they have been voted “winery of the year” on three separate occasions, they were Chile’s first Carbon Neutral Winery, their wines are highly awarded by all critics and journalists (incl. getting top spot in Robert Parkers Chile review) and they continue to push boundaries by elaborating wines with different varietals and different terroirs, they are without doubt the top estate in Chile right now.

 

Ken Forrester, Petit Chenin, Western Cape, South Africa, 2022
Description: Real freshness on the palate with crunchy green apple and grapefruit flavours. Vegan.
Sustainable practices: Practising organic and great corporate social responsibility work.

More about Ken Forrester

Without the efforts of men like Ken Forrester, South African Chenin Blanc might be scarcely more than a footnote to the country’s recent winemaking history – a workhorse grape responsible for vast amounts of forgettably bland white wine. But this Zambia-born former restaurateur saw beyond the grape’s obvious quaffability, placing it firmly at the centre of his resurrection of the historic Scholtzenhof farm on the slopes of Stellenbosch’s Helderberg mountain in the early 1990s. Twenty years on, Ken is known as ‘Mr Chenin’ and wines such as The FMC have elevated South African Chenin to classic status – but the Scholtzenhof renaissance is about more than the ugly duckling transformation of an underrated varietal. The Helderberg vineyards, Ken discovered, also contained what were at the time the only plantings of Grenache in Stellenbosch, dating from 1953 and helping to create what was in 1996 a unique South African blend of Shiraz and Grenache – and which now finds expression in wines such as The Renegade and The Gypsy.

 

Rosé

La Copa de Bobal Rose, Utiel-Requena, Spain, 2020
Description: Vibrant red fruit flavour with hints of floral notes.
Sustainable practices: They use pheromone diffusers to control the grapevine moth, avoiding any risk of chemical residues in the vineyard. They are constantly renewing their installations, replacing older machinery with newer equipment that consumes less energy, such as hybrids or electric apparatus. 35% of their energy consumption comes from renewable sources, including the energy generated by they solar panels. They use lightweight bottles and ensure that labels and packaging are made from recycled materials or come from PEFC- and FSC-certified forests. And they work on the recovery and identification of native and ancestral grape varieties as a source of learning and differentiation and as a guarantee of the future of their vineyards in the face of climate change.

More about Grupo Corviñas

Grupo Coviñas’ commitment to its natural and social environment has a twofold objective: to adapt their activity in response to climate change and to reduce their carbon footprint. They have set themselves objectives based on sustainable practices across all aspects of their activity (winegrowing, production, sales and distribution), as well as taking the initiative in programmes that help regenerate and improve their environment. Learn more about their commitment to sustainable practices.

 

Red

Care, Tinto Sobre Lias, Cariñena, Spain, 2021
Description: Fragrant and ripe red and black fruit with great balance. Vegan.
Sustainable practices: Waste recycling plan and energy optimisation. (See above for more about CARE).

Biferno Rosso Riserva Palladino, Naples, Italy, 2017
Description: A rich, cherry-scented, wine with the Aglianico grape adding some blackberry notes.
Camillo de Lellis is a group of wine producers in San Bonifacio making Biferno. It’s a blend, of Montepulciano from the coast, with Aglianico from warmer climes inland, and Trebbiano Toscana. So a white grape is used in a red wine blend – a highly traditional practice.
Sustainable practices: n/a

Aubert & Mathieu, Amy Organic Rouge, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 2021
Description: Juicy red fruit and subtle sweet spices - an elegant wine with great length. Vegan.
Sustainable practices: Certified organic and carbon neutral.

More about Aubert & Mathieu

Aubert & Mathieu is the story of two friends, Anthony Aubert and Jean-Charles Mathieu, who met at school. A few years later, they met up for a drink: Anthony was already in the wine trade and Jean-Charles was in corporate banking. Realising they shared an ambition to make wines their own way, in 2016, they launched Aubert & Mathieu. The first vintage was released in March 2019 and very successful on Paris’ trendy restaurant scene. The Aubert et Mathieu identity is based on producing niche wines from the best terroirs of Languedoc-Roussillon while highlighting the nuances and singularities of each appellation. The DNA of their wines shows the perfect mastery of freshness, balance and the search for complexity. Inspiration, carefree and a little fantasy led them on their way! Aubert et Mathieu is also completely carbon neutral.

Carbon neutrality is the first commitment of the company. It is with this conviction that Aubert Mathieu are committed to carrying out various actions for the climate. They believe it is necessary to contribute to the decarbonization of our planet. This starts first by decarbonizing our actions. Therefore they have calculated all of their emissions using SAMI (The Sami platform has just obtained Bilan Carbone® certification by the ABC.), which calculates their carbon footprint annually. This company allows them to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions and then supports in developing an action plan aimed at reducing them.