In 2022, Laithwaites sees itself doubling down on sustainability, with the intention of halving its carbon footprint by 2030. It has dedicated to extend the variety of UK-bottled wines in its vary to assist minimize down on CO2 emissions from transport glass bottles – transport in bulk in giant ‘baggage’ drastically reduces the burden of the identical quantity of wine.
It additionally permits the method to be overseen immediately by Laithwaites; a latest audit commissioned from EcoAct – a specialist firm advising on sustainability confirmed that a number of components, principally exterior Laithwaites’ direct management, contributed to 95% of the emissions footprint of a bottle of wine. There are additionally, little doubt, financial savings to be made by importing in bulk.
Different examples of Laithwaites’ efforts to enhance its sustainability credentials embody the discharge of the second wine in its ‘W/O’ vary, an natural Lucido (higher generally known as Catarratto) from Sicily. Bottled in ‘wild’ (100% recycled) glass and corked and not using a plastic capsule, it contains a totally biodegradable label made utilizing a single color printing course of on environmentally pleasant pulp. Info on the wine is accessed by way of a QR code.
The wine service provider has additionally just lately listed its first wine packaged in paper, the Redbrook Property Bacchus. Produced from 84% recycled paper with a recyclable plastic pouch, it’s a bit like a mini bag-in-box and, claims Laithwaites, has a carbon footprint six instances decrease than glass.
The shopping for staff has sourced new wines from the world over for 2022, taking advantage of the flexibility to journey way more broadly than they’d been in a position to in 2020 and 2021. Notable within the vary for 2022 are a variety of lighter purple wines, together with the primary examples produced from Dornfelder, Páis and Xinomavro.
One of many causes for introducing these new varieties is to cater for what Liz Smith, wine director at Laithwaites, identifies as a pattern in the direction of lighter types of reds: ‘Beaujolais specifically has been an enormous success story of the previous few years. However, partly in response to elevated costs, we’re now seeing this shift in the direction of different grapes and areas.’
Laithwaites wines are predominantly offered on-line and by way of wine golf equipment, however the retailer additionally has a smattering of shops across the south of the UK, together with in London, Beaconsfield, Gloucester, Studying, Banbury and Windsor.
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