Champagne Lopez-Martin
Sexual confusion

23rd April 2020: After we've raised the trellis wires, we've put in our vines the RAK. These are pheromone dispensers which will confuse the sexual behaviour of male butterflies so that they can't find anymore the female butterflies in our vines. It enables us to protect the becoming grapes by restricting the presence of caterpillars. Mating disruption is a natural alternative to the use of insecticides. It's used as part of the sustainable viticulture. This is a user, consumer and environment-friendly disposal!


April 2020: our vines with grass and pheromone dispensers. You can see one of them on the right!

This vine protection system was started in our vines for several years. Each year, a group of winegrowers from Hautvillers takes care to split the dispensers in a homogenous way throughout all their plots of vines. This collaboration ensures the disposal to be the most efficient possible whilst controlling the number of used dispensers. 

This year and because of the Covid-19, each winegrower has to do this step separate in his own plots only. Everybody has to be even more careful and to communicate efficiently in order not to put too much pheromones in the vineyard of Hautvillers.