Corbières AOC certification will require environmental credentials by 2024

The French winemaking region of Corbières has announced that by 2024 AOC certification will also require environmental certification.
Producers will have to proce that they are working in a sustainable fashion, are organic or biodynamic, or at the very least are in the process of conversion, with certiciations from Terra Vitis, Haute Valeur Environmmementale (HVE), Agriculture Biologique, Demeter or Biodyvin.
Nearly a third of the region’s producers currently work in an environmentally friendly fashion, which will nearly double to 60% by 2020 when producers currently being certififed are included in the numbers.
Of the total 10,600 hectres of AOC vineyard land, 1,300 are currently certified as being organic and 565ha as HVE.
Corbières is the latest wine region to announce that environmental practices are to become a requirement of PDO certification. In Bordeaux, both St Emilion and Bordeaux Superieur are seeking tointodu introduce similar measures by the early 2020s while Conegliano Valdobbiadene has just announced it is to ban the use of glyphosate herbicides.