A clean green future for Champagne

While the big houses see the attraction of sustainability, can they bring the growers along? A cleaner greener viticulture has been very much the topic of the year in Champagne. Vincent Perrin, the Comité Interprofessionel du vin de Champagne’s new director-general, started the ball rolling when he stressed the importance of a more environmentally friendly way of grapegrowing for the region in his first official speech at the occasion of the Saint Vincent de l’Archieconfrérie de la Champagne in January.