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Environmental certification and AOC wines: a first

The INAO's Comité National des Appellations d'Origine Contrôlées Viticoles (National Committee for Wine Appellations of Origin), which met today, has opened the examination of the first requests made by wine appellations to introduce the obligation to benefit from environmental certification in their specifications. This is a first.

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These applications for "Entre-deux-Mers", "Médoc", "Haut-Médoc" and "Listrac-Médoc" are part of one of the three options opened up by the INAO Permanent Council last December to producers of products with an official quality label, to give concrete expression to their efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their activity.

For the record, in order to take account of the diversity of supply chains, farms, products, markets, objectives and the stages involved in achieving them, the Permanent Council had retained the following options:

Introduce relevant and ambitious agri-environmental provisions into the specifications
Accompany farms towards certification as part of a collective approach but outside the specifications
Introduce an obligation in the specifications to have environmental certification or organic farming certification at farm level.