Domaine Bousquet has announced a new competition for UK wine professionals, designed to inspire the industry to embrace sustainability and create tangible change at grassroots level.
One of Argentina’s largest exporters of certified organic wines, Domaine Bousquet is owned and managed by Anne Bousquet and her husband, Labid Al Ameri. The property in Gualtallary, in Mendoza’s Uco Valley, lies at a dizzying altitude of 1,219m. It has been a B Corp since 2022. That same year, it also became the fourth wine estate to earn Regenerative Organic Certified status. It also holds Silver-level IWCA certification. Vineyards planted on virgin land, beginning in 1997, have been certified organic from the outset.
The Wine for the Future competition comprises three elements: an online test, a workplace-based sustainability project and a blind tasting. The winner will receive a trip for two to Domaine Bousquet’s Gualtallary estate during the 2027 harvest, with full immersion in the estate’s regenerative organic and biodynamic practices, a winemaker dinner and a stay at Domaine Bousquet’s Gaia Lodge in the heart of the vineyards. Runners-up will receive Domaine Bousquet wines. All finalists will receive certification and a lapel pin, a public Class of 2026 listing and an invitation to Domaine Bousquet El Salón UK trade tastings.
The judging panel includes leading figures in sustainability from Domaine Bousquet, the Sustainable Restaurant Association, the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation, Enotria, International Wineries for Climate Action, the Porto Protocol, and Sustainable Wine Solutions.
Wine for the Future requires participants to plan, deliver and document a sustainability project within their own business. Candidates must be working in the wine trade and have the authority to drive a sustainability initiative within their organisation.
The competition will run in three stages:
Stage 1 — Knowledge Test (until August 15)
Stage 2 — Workplace Sustainability Project (until September 30)
Participants who pass Stage 1 will be invited to deliver a customer-facing sustainability initiative in their workplace (for example, a sustainability-themed dinner), alongside implementing measurable sustainability improvements. Candidates will be supported through online masterclasses, a face-to-face session, one-to-one guidance from the competition team and an in-person tasting and masterclass with Domaine Bousquet winemaker Rodrigo Serrano.
Stage 3 — Prize-giving (October 23)
Top performers will be invited to a blind tasting of four wines in London, followed by a sustainability masterclass led by Anne Bousquet. The winner will then be announced.
“Wine quality will always come first, that’s non-negotiable,” says Bousquet. “But consumer-facing professionals are uniquely positioned to carry that quality story forward into something more: they are the ones guests trust to explain not just what’s in the glass, but where it came from and what it took to make it well. That makes them some of the best advocates we have for real change in this industry. This competition is built on that belief — give wine professionals the knowledge and the platform, and they become genuine agents of innovation.”
The application process is now open here.
