Sustainability

Cachet Wine has a continual commitment to the environment across all aspects of our business. As a business, we have a policy of investing in sustainable methods and infrastructure so that our legacy as a business has an ever-decreasing environmental footprint.

Recent examples of this are:

• The installation of 500m2 solar panels on our warehouse roof, capable of generating enough power to not only supply the needs of our offices and cellars (our buildings are already incredibly energy efficient) but, more importantly, reducing our carbon footprint by 400 tons annually. 
• We have moved away from single serve plastic bottles to wine cans, which has in turn removed 200,000 plastic bottles per year from our business. 
• We have introduced paperless invoicing and statements across all depots, and have a policy of recycling all packaging materials.
• We have a progressive policy of reducing glass weight in our wine bottles from 600g to 400g

Cachet Wine continues to foster and maintain positive relationships with every person within the business, whether that is our colleagues, suppliers, or customers.

We offer a flexible and family friendly approach to work/life balance, a fact reflected in the longevity of our colleagues within the business who have an average of 10.2 years working at Cachet Wine. 

As well as offering our colleagues a wide range of benefits such as WSET & Staff Improvement courses, job-specific training, 5 weeks paid holiday, quarterly staff lunches, we also have a Mental Health First Aider onsite to safeguard our employee’s wellbeing. 

Cachet Wine has a strong and proactive relationship with the local community, supporting a wide range of activities and causes annually.

In addition to the financial support that we offer to a local Hospice (Dove House) through donations and fund-raising, Cachet Wine offers all our staff two days of paid annual leave to volunteer for local charitable causes within our community. 

Cachet Wine sources 100% of all products directly, with no 3rd party intervention and as such we understand and can trace the provenance of all of our products – ‘Grape to Glass’ is not a phrase we use lightly. As a business, we promote honesty, integrity and sustainability throughout our buying process, encouraging all our suppliers to adopt our principles of building a wine business for future generations.

Our portfolio of wine domaines points to the Sustainability of Relationships, with family domaines dominating our supplier base and working relationships that have lasted for many decades.  Examples include Sichel, Audy, Domaine du Vieux Telegraphe, Rioja Vega, Plaimont & LGI.  As a wine business we focus on the product and the family, building relationships based on trust, honesty, integrity and quality. We have many wine domaines practicing Organic and/or Biodynamic and farming sustainably under Lutte Raisonee principles.

Bottling at source is marginally more expensive, but this policy of bottling in the country of origin means that the quality of the wine is guaranteed, involves less handling and manipulation and is totally traceable.