Sustainable Brands

Tequila Ocho is a leader in sustainability. It minimizes the use of chemicals in its agave fields and turns fiber remnants from tequila production into compost for its fields.

Maker’s Mark became the world’s largest distillery to earn its B Corp certification — a significant milestone for the broader industry, as well as a sustainability benchmark for Kentucky’s thriving “Bourbon Country.” Maker’s earned the status through various ongoing initiatives including a distillery-wide zero-landfill initiative, and extensive solar installations across its warehouse footprint.

Belvedere only sources the finest quality ingredients, allowing the true character of each to come to life in vodka. This range of super-premium flavored spirits is no exception, representing Belvedere’s first certified organic vodka.

Benziger vineyards and winemaking facilities are all triple certified—Sustainable, Organic and Biodynamic. Every wine in our portfolio carries a third-party certification of green farming practice. The result is distinctive, authentic wines, expressive of the vineyards.

Flor de Caña rum is Fair-Trade-certified, runs on 100% renewable energy, and has earned a carbon-neutral certification. This brand has been in the business for 130 years, proving that it can comply with the required 300-odd labor, social, and environmental standards to earn the designation. The rum has been distilled using 100% renewable energy for more than a decade and the brand so far has planted 50,000 trees annually to help protect the environment.

The gin is ultra-clean, 6-times distilled, gluten-free corn base spirit provides the perfect blank canvas to allow our wonderful Californian botanicals to truly shine, which are carefully selected and sourced from sustainable organic farms, or wild foraged ingredients. The bottle itself also takes the environment, and you, into consideration, with its 100% biodegradable cork and organic paint. Distilled and bottled right in California.

At Ferrari-Carano, sustainability is part of our DNA. Since 2015, all 24 of our vineyards have earned the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) certification. In 2019, our efforts were further underscored at the Sonoma County Harvest Fair, which dubbed the winery the Sustainable Producer of the Year.

An Islay Dry Gin, The Botanist is made with 22 sustainably hand-foraged, local botanicals. Produced from the one of the world's only B Corp-certified distilleries, The Botanist puts community first.

Our organic farm crafted spirits are made with 100% USDA certified organic corn, and each batch is taste-tested until it reaches next-level perfection. This means you can 100% count on enjoying it for all of the right reasons: it's sustainable and delicious.

As one of the country's largest producers of estate wines made from Biodynamic® grapes, we take great pride in our sustainable growing and winemaking practices.

Crafted in the heart of California wine country using a mixture of the region’s grape varietals, Hanson of Sonoma has become an envelope-pushing role model within the world of sustainable small-batch vodka. The grapes, which are of course USDA certified, bring a sweet, deeply fruity note to the spirit while maintaining a buoyancy that lends itself to sipping neat. Hanson also offers a wide range of infused vodkas made with organic fruits and flavors that are free from any sort of syrup, concentrate or flavoring, including ginger and habanero.

El Tesoro Tequila composts all of its organic waste and lets 5% of its crop flower to ensure future crops and save the endangered lesser long-nosed bat, which pollinates agave plants.

They are at the forefront of sustainable agave farming, which is a growing concern for the industry. They also put a heavy emphasis on paying their mezcaleros and others who work on their production very well. 

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