Botter S.P.A.

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Botter was founded by Carlo Botter and his wife Maria in 1928 in Fossalta di Piave, a small town in the province of Venice. It began as a small business in the Veneto region for the sale of wine in casks and demijohns to retailers. Towards the end of the 1950s, when the second generation, Arnaldo and Enzo, joined the company, the marketing of bottled wines began. The two brothers increased the company's presence in the Italian market and, more importantly, began the process of expanding into the foreign market. In the 1970s, Botter, in step with globalisation, expanded the range of products on offer. Some of the Veneto wines in the assortment began to be produced on the family's estates in the province of Treviso. In the 1980s, thanks to close collaborations with local producers, the company complemented its products with those from the wine-growing regions of Italy. Wines from native grape varieties from Abruzzo, Campania, Puglia and Sicily were selected. This was the starting point of a multi-territorial approach that still characterises the company today. At the end of the 1990s, the third generation - Luca, Annalisa and Alessandro - joined the company and Botter started a further evolution: a new business model more suited to the needs of an increasingly dynamic and global market was adopted. In 2021 Botter became part of the private equity group Clessidra, from which the Argea Group was born in 2022. Argea was founded with the aim of becoming the first private national pole in the sector and with the ambition of being the accelerator of the Italian wine ecosystem in the world, combining expertise in the production of DOC and DOCG wines and in their marketing on international markets, while at the same time promoting a culture of sustainable development among producers and the people with whom it works. Today, Botter is one of the largest exporters of Italian wine: not by chance, 1 in 20 bottles of Italian wine exported worldwide is produced by Botter.

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AIR Indicator

AIR indicator reflects the total greenhouse gas emission directly or indirectly associated with the company activities (GHG Inventory).
Total emissions are divided into six categories: Category 1 – Direct GHG emissions; Category 2 – Indirect GHG emissions from imported energy; Category 3 – Indirect GHG emissions from transportation; Category 4 – Indirect GHG emissions from products used by organization; Category 5 – Indirect GHG emissions associated with the use of products from the organization (NS=Non Significant as outside the reporting boundaries); Category 6 – Indirect GHG emissions from other sources.
The result is graphically represented by the ring in which the colored segments represent the contribution of each Category.

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Category 1 – Direct GHG emissions
Category 2 – Indirect GHG emissions from imported energy
Category 3 – Indirect GHG emissions from transportation
Category 4 – Indirect GHG emissions from products used by organization
Category 5 – Indirect GHG emissions associated with the use of products from the organization (NS=Non Significant as outside the reporting boundaries)
Category 6 – Indirect GHG emissions from other sources

WATER Indicator

The WATER indicator expresses the potential environmental impacts resulting from the use of fresh water. It takes into account the water directly consumed and polluted by the activities that the company carries out, both in the vineyard and in the cellar, during a calendar year. These impacts are evaluated by two indicators: in particular, water scarcity (Direct Water Scarcity Footprint) depends on the water drawn from water bodies, while the estimate of the qualitative degradation of water (Non-Comprehensive Direct Water Degradation Footprint) derives from processes of re-naturalization of the water bodies.

Direct Water Scarcity Footprint

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IRRIGATION
TREATMENTS
WINERY
 

NON-COMPREHENSIVE DIRECT WATER DEGRADATION FOOTPRINT

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VINEYARD

TERRITORY Indicator

TERRITORY indicator assesses the impact of winery's activities on its surrounding area and local community. This includes: the impact on surrounding biodiversity, taking also into account initiatives carried out by the wine company to protect and preserve the environment; the social and economic impact on local workforce (both in terms of job creation and job quality); the impact on local communities that is producers and consumers. Such indicator analyses whether the winery has respected the socio-economic parameters required by the project.

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VIVA. Sustainable wine
Ministero della transizione ecologica