Environmental winegrowing without borders:

The Méthode Cousinié®

The well-informed consumers lay out their preferences:

• Healthy nutrition, made-to-order and free of pollutants.
• Nature protected by the most rigorous of regulations, a guarantee of health.
• A more individualistic lifestyle, albeit more demanding, where each person will become increasingly responsible for environmental management through his or her own patterns of consumption.

A man with an environmental cause

In 1972, Jean-Pierre Cousinié was the inventor of the “well-reasoned" environmental farming method, the Méthode Cousinié®:
«I’ve outlined new research perspectives in order to understand the intimate relationships between the biological rhythms of plants and their nutritional needs, on the one hand, and on the other, soil resources and environmental management. The application of a new set of interactive and regulating values for environmental protection measures enhances plant growth and auto-resistance.».

A directly applicable agricultural concept

• Abroad: Spain, Chile, California, Eastern Europe.
• France: Bordeaux (Médoc, Graves, Margaux, St. Emilion), Gaillac, Sud-ouest, Languedoc-Roussillon, Vallée du Rhône.

The quality chain

The added value of the Cousinié Agricultural Method stems from the highly positive assessments of wine quality, as well as from mastery of the vineyard.
« These experiences, involving both the vine and the laboratory, have made it possible for me to create a reference system for geological, biological, and biochemical data, with observations made in the field, all of which is immediately available in the ”Méthode Cousinié® Reference System”. A living record of a successfully completed agricultural concept, it reinforces appropriate growing decision-making.

The idea of a qualitative reclassification

Owing to action taken in the field, fleshed out by innovative, sectorial and wide-reaching analyses, we can offer grapegrowers, managers and investors other criteria for farm development: the Méthode Cousinié® environmental quality reference – requalification of your output – reassessment of the vineyard – new economic perspectives.

Our guarantees 

• From inspection of the vineyard until sampling: rigorous, detailed procedures and notations.
• Innovative analytical laboratories and methods, certified Méthode Cousinié® processes.
• The Reference System: database expanded by thirty years of observations, notations regarding the land, agricultural advice.
• Interpretations based on the Méthode Cousinié® value levels.
• Environmental quality implementation:  ISO 9001 and 14001 standards
  
• Highly productive recommendations due to carrying out the COUSIFERTYL® Soil Concepts in accordance with Méthode Cousinié® specifications.
• Follow-up of actions in the field (sampling, control analyses), with notations regarding effectiveness.
• Food safety based on additional nutrients and Cousifolia® leaf corrective measures, certified by the Méthode Cousinié®.

The COUSIFERTYL® range of soil products and the COUSIFOLIA® range of leaf products in partnership

Within the framework of an agreement, we study how the range of our soil nutrition products and leaf products can be fitted to your needs. Following analyses of your raw-material resources, we implement a process for preparing and refining your amendments and soil nutrients. Leaf formulas, derived from the CousiFolia® product range, will be designed in keeping with corrective and nutritional plans involving our agricultural recommendations.

Skill sharing

There is the possibility of training your agronomists and analysts. We will help you implement the procedures necessary for the proper handling of our agricultural recommendations. In order to do this, technology and skill transfers will be set up under long-term assistance contracts.

The Méthode Cousinié® is being carried out successfully at numerous sites with varying geological, climatic and growing characteristics.

It is an easily-adapted, interactive means of keeping in touch with the terroir and its caretakers.

If you wish to become acquainted with all of our company’s resources – environmental farming advice, soil nutrients, leaf nutrients and corrective measures - please contact our agricultural manager by e-mail at the following address: contact form.

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