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The Positive Luxury Awards 2026 reward those taking serious, sustained positive action. This award is for the luxury business deemed to have demonstrated the most measurable positive impact on nature, people and profit – and true inspiration, showing others what is possible. 

The word Savigne is made up of “Sa” from the word “Savoir Faire” the French for know how. A word that the French are obsessed with because of the beauty of making, crafting, the expertise and the knowledge to make at a very high level, a word that transcends through centuries in France and the wider world of French Luxury. Then we have the second part of our material world, from the word “Vignes”, the French word for vines and where our materials world commences, in the vines

“By-product” is something of a dirty word. Perhaps it shouldn’t be – but it is. In part, of course, this is because the meat and leather industries use “by-product” as justification for industrial-scale mass production. But, as well as that unfortunate game of greenwashing word association, it’s also because it implies a certain imbalance – it suggests a single quality product and something lesser. That’s why “by-product” doesn’t really feature in Planet of the Grapes’ vocab