Cargo Road passed with flying colours and in the process, became the first vineyard in the world to receive its Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV), much to the delight of cellar door manager Dominic Walsh.
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00:00 We put thousands of hours a year into this and the outcome that I want largely is really
00:12 fantastic wine and we've got it, that's great.
00:15 But it's very, very satisfying to come to work and to actually spend a day measuring
00:20 the other outcomes that we get here.
00:21 It's easy enough to drink the wine and say, "Yep, we've got that right, that's fantastic."
00:25 But to be able to know what we've done to the land and actually know, not just guess,
00:30 assume, but actually have somebody qualified to come and measure it and benchmark it year
00:34 on year on year and know that we've done something great here.
00:39 And so what we've done here is we've actually proven that we are regenerative and that we're
00:45 actually implementing strategies that improve ecological health of the farm.
00:50 So as you can see here, there's a lot of green plants growing.
00:53 This increases our soil health.
00:56 Soil health produces great crops and great wine.
01:00 So effectively that's what the accreditation proves.
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