EMILIANA BECOMES THE FIRST CHILEAN COMPANY TO OBTAIN AN INTERNATIONAL REGENERATIVE CERTIFICATION

(ROC®) represents currently the highest standard of sustainable
agriculture in the world. It was established in 2017 by a group of farmers, leading entrepreneurs and experts on soil health, animal welfare and social equity who call themselves Regenerative Organic Alliance, or ROA.

The practices of this certification pursue healthy soils, animal welfare, and dignity for workers as opposed to the so-called ‘conventional’ agriculture that has devastated the soil and its biodiversity, in addition to being responsible for at least 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions (Report on Agriculture and Food by the World Bank, September 2022).

To apply for this certification, the company must first have the organic certification by the North American USDA (U.S.Department of Agriculture) and the Fair-Trade certification, meaning that you cannot be regenerative without being organic first.

“At Emiliana we believe that the commitments to sustainability must be certified and credited. We want to tell the world that we are doing regenerative organic agriculture and therefore we turned to ROC®. What we do is real and it adjusts to strict
standards; we do not lend ourselves to image washing or greenwashing, which means an ongoing commitment to organic agriculture acquired 25 years ago,” declares Sebastián Tramón, Sustainability Manager at the winery.

According to Tramón, regenerative organic agriculture is key in the fight against climate change. “In this context, this positions us as world leaders. We are the biggest organic winery on the planet to have this certification, allowing us to focus on what is really important and which relates to soil management, how people are treated, and the conditions in which the collaborators participate,” Tramón points out.