sustainability

PHYTOTHERAPY IN VITICULTURE

At Vinyes d’Olivardots, our commitment to organic and sustainable viticulture leads us to use natural methods to protect and take care of our vineyards. Under the principles of biodynamics, we focus on the use of phytotherapy, plants that heal plants, to prevent and treat the possible diseases that may affect our grapes.

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With a deep knowledge of phytotherapy, we collect medicinal plants around our plots, which through a cooking or fermentation process, we extract the active principles necessaries to heal the vineyards.

Biodynamic agriculture helps us to preserve the natural balance of the viticultural ecosystem and its connection with the earth.

ANIMALS FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

From November to March, during the rest months of the vines, it is the turn of our animals. The team of sheep from Vinyes d’Olivardots begins to graze the different farms following the vegetal cover and at the same time fertilizing the soils in a natural and ecological way with their manure.

Sheep – vine – soil symbiosis is the harmony that translates into grapes in the form of quality and authentic expression of their terroir.

COMPOSTING: CLOSING THE CIRCLE

In Vinyes d’Olivardots we are an ecological project and we recycle everything we generate through composting.

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From harvest residues like grape skins, stems that result from the winemaking process and pruning branches, to manure from our sheep and chickens when we clean their stables. A combination of organic materials that during 12 months are transformed into a rich and fertile humus that we will return to our vineyards by promoting the balance of nutrients, increasing the organic matter and improving the water retention capacity.

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When Vinyes d’Olivardots wine bottles reach the end of their useful life, whether at tastings, visits to the winery or wine fairs, we don’t see them as waste, but as opportunities for a new life. We transform them into trays, plates or glasses that will be reused on a daily basis.

GLASS BOTTLE RECYCLING

But our commitment to sustainability goes further, and all the packaging that surrounds our wines and recycled products also follows the same philosophy and is FSC certified.

Recycling and reusing is not just a task, is a way of living and working in a conscious and ecological way.

INNOVATION IN CO2 RECYCLING

Carboni’s footprint is a global problem, as an organic winery we want to collaborate and contribute to its reduction, harvest is a critical moment of maximum production of this gas due to the fermentation of the wines.

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Since our beginnings, we have implemented an innovative measure to interconnect fermentation tanks with each other and reuse carbon dioxide to inert grape inputs or post-fermentation macerations from adjacent tanks.

We want to help and do our bit in the fight against climate change.

SOLAR ENERGY: CONVERTING LIGHT INTO GREEN ENERGY

As a sustainable winery, Vinyes d’Olivardots is committed to preserving the environment, operating with green energy that we obtain from the sun. In 2018, we implemented a solar panel system to generate clean electricity and storage batteries to be able to use it at night or on cloudy days, in this way, day after day, we can carry out all the work in the winery with renewable energy.