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Guided by Nature
A three-generation family business led by Sam Linter, Bolney Wine Estate has been guided by nature since 1972 when the first vines were planted.
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Sam Linter
Managing Director Bolney Wine Estate
With the mild climate and sandstone soil, Bolney has spent many years discovering the best variety of grapes to grow in their eco-system, which has resulted in numerous award-winning still and sparkling wines. And it’s not just wine that they create at Bolney, wine wastage is collected, distilled, and used to produce the Bolney Estate Gin and Bolney Estate Rosso Vermouth too.
Bolney believes that the more you can understand and take inspiration from the nature around us, the more you can appreciate its needs and protect its diversity and beauty for future generations. 2021 has been an exciting year so far for Bolney Wine Estate, with the launch of two new wines: Estate Chardonnay 2020 and Winemaker’s Edition 2019. The Estate Chardonnay is Bolney’s first still Chardonnay and has already been awarded a gold medal at this year’s Wine GB awards. It was a long time in the planning, from identifying the ideal site within the Estate to patiently waiting for the vines to come into production in 2020, which proved to be an excellent year for ripening.
The Winemaker’s Edition 2019 is a wellbalanced, medium-bodied red wine and is the first in a new series of wines that has been created to ensure the Estate can continue to highlight its pioneering approach to English wine by bringing new, exciting releases to its customers using new blends that show off the very best of English winemaking. Winemaker Editions will only be released when the opportunity is different and special, making every bottle even more exclusive. 2022 is set to bring even more excitement to the Estate with Bolney’s 50th anniversary. A series of celebrations will be running throughout the year, from events to new releases, with each and every one providing a perfectly fitting way to pay homage to all the Estate has achieved since 1972.
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At last, some good news for the restaurant, café and pub trade!
A new commercial food waste collection service for Adur and Worthing
By Matt Marchant
There’s no doubt that Worthing is back open for business. On my recent walks through the town, it’s been great to see our trading areas, seafront and promenade really starting to blossom again. All of us have faced a variety of challenges through COVID, and we've all had to take stock and look at new ways of doing things. Not every business is back up to full steam just yet, and we all understand that ‘normal’ (whatever that means now) is still a way-off, but customers are returning to cafes and restaurants in larger numbers now, to enjoy great food and service by the sea. It’s all good stuff.
Will things ever be the same? There’s no doubt that times have changed, and during the lockdowns, we all saw reports of reduced air pollution, more bird song and less noise from traffic. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think this news has triggered many of us to reconsider our own impact on the environment and has given the public a glimpse of the world we could be living in. In the new world, customers are demanding better; better quality, better service and better transparency. These are all bold statements, but even before the pandemic, our own research told us that diners and cafe goers were concerned about waste management, when using leisure and dining venues. They wanted to know how much their favourite restaurants recycle, what they do with their food waste and how their general waste is treated after it leaves their plates. Put simply, it matters now more than ever how businesses present their waste management strategy to their customers. Adur & Worthing Councils Commercial Waste Services has been working with more than 2000 customers in our area for over 30 years. General, mixed recycling and now food waste collections are available as a complete managed refuse contract. Food waste could make up to 33% of a restaurants’ rubbish and our new service can divert kilos of kitchen leftovers and plate waste to energy production, using anaerobic digestion, a recognised sustainable form of energy production. By using our new service, most customers don’t end up spending any more on their contracts, and our support team is ready to help you get the right mixture of waste bin types and sizes for your business. New clients who take up the service will also get a new ‘Food Waste Recycler’ window sticker too to show customers that they are doing everything they can to manage their waste in the best way possible and who wouldn’t want to know that?
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Vent-Axia Shows ‘Sustainable is Attainable’
Vent-Axia is sharing how it is taking measurable actions to deliver healthy indoor air sustainably which in turn is helping its own customers make sustainable attainable.
With the construction industry working hard to meet Net-Zero targets by 2050 it is important the whole supply chain works together to reduce carbon emissions which means specifiers working with suppliers that are reducing their own carbon footprint. Vent-Axia is committed to helping make sustainable attainable for its customers by taking action to reduce its environmental impact as part of a group wide initiative. These actions have resulted in significant improvements to help the company meet its environmental goals including eliminating plastic blister packs and single use poly bags from its supply chain; recycling 180 tonnes of cardboard; using recycled materials from 63,000 old fridges and designing efficiency and modularity into its products to lower energy usage and reduce landfill waste.
As a strategy to reduce its environmental impact, Vent-Axia has introduced its ‘3 pillars of sustainability’:
Plastic – reduce and recycle
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“Sustainability is about finding solutions. From energy usage and climate change to air quality and future lifestyles, these are the areas where we can have the biggest positive impacts. We’re focussing on how we can improve lives through the impact of our products, our impact on the planet and our impact on our people”, said Lena Hebestreit, Marketing Manager at Vent-Axia. “We want to show that being sustainable is attainable, not only for us but for the wider industry. We’re on a sustainable journey towards reaching net-zero and Vent-Axia is taking real, quantifiable actions to achieve this. Vent-Axia is committed to helping all its customers on their net-zero journey including social housing and new build customers where regulation and targets are swiftly driving change - helping make sustainable attainable.”
