Investor expectations

Many investors associate real-estate activity with a more professional plan for creating their own grape crops. Their wide-reaching marketing prowess facilitates access to markets in which they often hold the key to carrying out business.

Success involves two quite distinctive levels of expertise:

• Property: construction worth, architecture, style and history, volumes, wine cellars, annexes, geographical location.
• Wine-producing farm: geography, geology, vineyard vines, land plot homogeneity, range of wines, oenological practices, environment, marketing.

Objective worth of the wine-producing farm

This depends on various research levels and steps taken in the field:

• At the farm level: geological-climatic survey – water resources – business skills – new owner-grapegrower policy.
• At the land plot level: vineyard vines – sanitary condition – oenological potential – wine output (quality, weaknesses, marketing).
•  At the microbiological and mineral level: soil and subsoil analysis – resources – anomalies – vinestock vigor – physiological structure – leaf vitality – wood and berry quality.Ces interventions sont engagées sur demande d’investisseurs et agences de transactions avant l’achat de propriétés viticoles.

 These actions are implemented upon request from investors and transaction agencies prior to purchasing grape-growing property.

A commitment to the environment

The Jean-Pierre Cousinié company was the first European small- and medium-size business classified as “agricultural advisors and monitoring” to obtain ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 Environmental certifications. Since 1972 we have been developing a management method for the farming-grapegrowing environment: the Cousinié® Environmental Agricultural Method, “more nutritional balance with fewer phytosanitary treatments”.

In addition to regulatory obligations, with which we comply and anticipate, we are categorically committed to:

• Steps involving on-going and rigorous improvement of our business.
• Prevention of any agricultural practice that could harm the environment.
  

Management/Quality/Environment System

The Jean-Pierre Cousinié company administers and provides input to its own environmental quality management system. Our progressive agricultural-environmental Méthode Cousinié® consists of interpreting soil, subsoil and foliage analyses, which are crosschecked with our database: the Méthode Cousinié Agricultural-Environmental Reference System.

The Méthode Cousinié® guarantees

These form part and parcel of our comprehensive mastery of the environmental-quality path:

Vineyard inspection, to include sampling.

• Selection of highly-demanding analytical laboratories and methodologies.
• Interpretations based on our Méthode Cousinié® value levels.
• Know-how accumulated from more than thirty years of professional experience (since 1972).
• Quality and environmental monitoring under ISO 9001 and 14001 standards.
• Recommendations arising from implementing Cousifertyl® soil concepts in keeping with Méthode Cousinié® specifications.
• Follow-up of actions in the field, guaranteeing a high efficiency rating.
• Food safety through soil nutrients and Méthode Cousinié® certified Cousifolia® foliage corrective measures.

An expert operational report

Our assessment will allow you to gain a far-reaching comprehension of the status of your vineyard. The Jean-Pierre Cousinié company will respond to your demands as follows :

• Classification of production areas by order of agricultural interest.
• Soil upgrading.
  
• Emergency health plan if necessary.
• In the long run:
• Restarting cultivation.
• Cultivation management plan with periodic follow-up and assessment.
• Extensive laboratory research.
• Measurement of complex links between land plot potential and wine quality.
  
• Oenological process quality so as to better express the terroir type.
  

Knowledge of terroir worth is the key to the success of your agricultural and economic plan. This approach allows investors to optimize their investment in a healthy, productive area of patrimonial interest, one with a strong development potential.

For any viewpoints regarding your next estate and agricultural investment, please contact our agricultural experts.

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