Sustainability

Our practices focus on addressing the group’s six pillars of Water, Soil, Pest & Disease, Waste, Climate Change, People.

Examples include:

• Smarter water use through active real-time monitoring of soil moisture to drive irrigation efficiency, and utilising winter rainfall harvesting and storage for use during the growing season.

• Wastewater project at Kim Crawford Winery to reduce water usage and improve the quality of winery wastewater which is irrigated to land on the wastewater fields.

• Native tree planting initiatives, for example Rarangi Vineyard wetland project, Hawkesbury Road stream restoration plan.

• Active participant in the NZ Winegrowers Vineyard ecosystems project exploring how vineyard management activities can enhance biodiversity and improve grapevine performance.

• Predator control on our vineyards to encourage a habitat for native birds and insects, for example installing ‘beetle banks’ as a form of biocontrol which encourage beneficial insects, birds and fauna.

• Chilean Needlegrass programme at our Awatere Hills Vineyard - an ecosystem project to eradicate a highly invasive pest plant that negatively impacts animal welfare in the Marlborough region.

• Reduce landfill by enforcing compost, recyclable and landfill separation of all office waste.

• Our two New Zealand Wineries, Kim Crawford and Selaks, produce wine that is 100% vegan.

• Reduced herbicide use on suitable vineyards by utilising for example undervine cover crops.

• Replaced wooden treated posts with recyclable metal vineyard posts.