Quality that rhymes with Corporate Social Responsibility
Many may have noticed that on the capsule of some of our organic and vegan sparkling wines the words ‘EU/NON-EU Agriculture’ accompany the organic flag.
This statement is not about the origin of the grapes because we use only grapes of Italian origin for the production of sparkling wines and organic and vegan wines.
‘EU/NON-EU agriculture’, on the other hand, concerns a stage of production in the winery. Sparkling wines to become such are processed according to the Martinotti (Charmat) method, which involves fermentation in autoclaves. When the base wine is loaded into the autoclaves, in addition to the yeast, a minimal amount of sugar is added to trigger the fermentation process that transforms the sugars into alcohol and natural carbon dioxide. This is how the wine is transformed into sparkling wine.
The wording was introduced because Perlage uses for its organic sparkling wines the organic cane sugar that the Altromercato Social Enterprise imports from outside the EU, in this case from Thailand.
Altromercato has always promoted fair trade that guarantees a fair price to small-scale sugarcane producers.
Perlage as of 2019 has officially become a Benefit Corporation (after becoming certified B Corp in 2016). Values such as transparency, social and environmental sustainability, inclusiveness and promotion of more responsible and healthy lifestyles are now part of our corporate charter. Perlage through its partnership with Altromercato, wishes to promote and incentivize more equitable, responsible and sustainable forms of economic development.
