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OUR MAISONS TAKE ACTION

Hennessy commits to promoting

a new model for agriculture

— To maintain the fertility of its soils and

vineyards, Hennessy is implementing

biodiversity-friendly practices: winegrowing

agroforestry, which involves planting trees

and hedges that provide shelter for

a microfauna of crop auxiliaries that are

very helpful for controlling pests using

plant cover such as alfalfa and clover

between rows of vines to aerate and enrich

the soil season after season; maintaining

dry chalk grasslands through eco-grazing,

a practice recommended by the French Bird

Protection League that promotes the growth

of remarkable flora; and installing beehives

in vineyards, with bees monitored through

biocontrol trials and environmental analyses

as part of a research program in partnership

with the Observatoire Français dApidologie

a French nonprofit that works to protect

and promote bees

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1 Ruinart

2 Krug

3 Château dEsclans

4 Veuve Clicquot