Posts Tagged ‘environment’

Aug
15

Sustainability and Land Management at Deakin Estate

By Rob Pickard

Deakin Estate

Based in the Murray Darling region, just north west of Victoria, Deakin Estate create classic varietal expressions, which are fruit focused, easy drinking and fantastic value for the high quality on offer.

A few reasons for such high quality here can be pinned on such a dedicated Deakin team, lead by one of Australia’s best winemakers, Dr Phil Spillman. The other …

Jun
18

Top 10 Tips for a Greener Restaurant

GreenRestaurant

By Jamie Ford

Quite rightly ‘Green Issues’ are increasingly on the forefront of people’s minds. Questions arise such as:

How can we be more environmentally friendly?
How can we make sure our lives and business’ are sustainable?
Has my chicken burger been organically farmed?

Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start. So I took it upon myself to compile a list of tips that would help restaurants who were wanting …

Mar
02

Climate Change – Knappstein’s Solution

By Ben Turner

Knappstein home

Knappstein home

Climate change is a much debated subject the world over. Whether we’re discussing the change in weather patterns ranging from decades to millions of years through to a change in a specific region over time or even specific one offs events, we can’t help but seemingly acknowledge that change is happening in our own lifetime.

There is no doubt …

Feb
22

Fairtrade Fortnight 2010

By Ben Turner

Swap it, don't fight it

Swap it, don't fight it

With it being Fairtrade Fortnight from 22nd February to 7th March we here at Bibendum thought we’d let you know a little about how The Fairtrade Foundation is asking the nation to swap your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff in The Big Swap…

Feb
03

Carbon? Zero!

By Gal Zohar

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If you’ve been following this space, you might have noticed a recurring theme. Lately we have been almost obsessed with the green (or Vivid in Bibendum speak) aspects of wine production. After discussing the real meaning of natural wines and exploring the philosophy behind biodynamic farming we thought we had covered it all. And then came Matt Oliver.

Matt is the vineyard manager …

Jan
07

Bibendum’s Vivid Team leads the Green Revolution

By Bibendumtimes

Green Bottles

We take a lot of things seriously at Bibendum – wine, customer, service, lunch – but nothing more so than our Vivid project which aims to make a real difference to the way we impact on the environment. Vivid is the name we give to our wide-ranging project to reduce the impact that Bibendum, its employees and its products have on the environment. …

Dec
14

First Bordeaux consultant to release Green Winemaking Charter

By Jane Anson, http://newbordeaux.blog.co.uk/

Bordeaux - tree & vinyard

Bordeaux - tree & vinyard

Following …

Jul
24

Art Attack Friday No.18: Water Saving Week

Here at Bibendum, our Vivid team has the twin challenges of cajoling without nagging, of educating without preaching. It ain’t always easy, that’s for sure. We’re 100% committed to a set of sustainable, environmental policies that will see viticulture, winemaking and wine drinking endure for a very long time. This week Art Attack Friday celebrates Water Saving Week – a topic that’s pretty important for both UK consumers …

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