Published 02/14/2022 : SevenFiftyDaily

Climate-smart building design ensures energy efficiency. Rather than air conditioning, Tablas Creek’s cellar has an automatic louver system that opens to cool night air. At Languedoc’s biodynamic Château Maris, the winery is constructed from double-walled brick made of lime, waste straw from hemp production, and a molasses-based fixer. “The plant-based bricks sequester carbon, the U-value [or thermal transmittance] is amazing, and the building breathes,” says winemaker and owner Robert Eden. “We have no need for temperature control inside.”

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Published February 2022 : La fondation du Vin – le vin de demain

In the ranking of the Fondation du Vin, an association under the 1901 law, which lists innovative, responsible and inspiring initiatives in the world of wine, Château Maris, in Félines Minervois in the Languedoc, which produces only wines in biodynamic culture, has just sent 1200 bottles to the United States, by sailboat. They crossed the Atlantic with Grain de Sail, a cargo sailboat. A new mode of freight transport that is more environmentally friendly and emits 17 times less CO2 than a conventional container ship. The sailboat will export 2 times a year 10,000 AB certified French wines to the United States.

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