Chandon devised a scoring system for its associates wine producers. More than 200 growers who work with quality standards that ultimately reditúan in the price of raw materials.
Rewards or penalties to Apply for better yields That is the question. Chandon works with the first option, and every year awards the best producers take note, grape paying around 18% more. This system manages the winery best quality wines and sparkling wines, and producers, best prices on the grapes. The Chandon vineyard manager Martin Reboredo explains the system applied for 20 years, and was met over time, that third parties produce the best possible grapes. In 1990 we started with a rating system of the grape. It was so successful that changed the habit of crop producers Mendoza says the agronomist. Years ago, the grapes harvested by third parties usually came to rota wineries, leaved, mixed and very dirty. No matter, no one took into account certain quality parameters. But since we started applying this system spent about 5 and 6 years and people took it as habit. The system has three Chandon agronomists deal only with the outsourced production, incorporating three more at harvest time. Thus, the grapes arrive at the winery is qualified by an engineer before leaving the truck. Take a random box, dump the grapes into a sorting table, grabs his notebook and points. That evaluate three items of importance, two of which have sub items. These are crop quality and health. On the item is quality vintage boxes or bins come clean sheet, which is pure grape that is harvested with scissors, not having mud or foreign objects. Once evaluated the producer is going well with the note or your product weighs on the scale. Reboredo indicates that this note is important, because the producer who brought a bad note, you can react immediately and bring the next truck in better condition. Each truck is scored, and each truck carries the note. So an average rating, the rating of the vineyard, where they have jobs that the producer made in the vineyard throughout the year (irrigation, disease care, pruning, etc.) is added is obtained. That note is a single, Reboredo explains. The vineyard must be balanced homogeneous, the grapes must be healthy. But not only reaching the cellar, but the one in the vineyard. When evaluating diseased grapes if we did not work or prevention of diseases in the vineyard theme irrigation, weed also qualifies, and that takes a note usually details. Note that the results given are averages from 0 to 10 and participate in the final price of the grape, which is given based on a price plus a premium, which is proportional to the note you have removed the producer. October 1 which shows all get about 20% more. And this is not that hard because we ask for things to do. Overall we are paying on average 18% more than the base price by the good quality you get, Reboredo said. When Chandon started with this evaluation system and awards the average of the ratings that drew producers was 7 and less. Today, 90% obtained between 9 or 10, and it takes less than 7 will directly put a zero says. In fact a producer who repeatedly misses quality standards, is outside the system and the income of another is assessed too low certain quality standards. Currently entering Chandon 250,000 quintals of grapes. About 70% percent is third grape. Source: Wine Area, Editec SRL
