Five percent to impact
Good product. Good people. Good place.
We are committed to creating quality organic wines, that are progressive, approachable and celebrate their own personalities.
We commit ourselves, beyond wine, to always contribute at least 5% of revenue to positive social and environmental impact.
Our 2023 IMPACT STORY is here!
In 2023 we:
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⋐ Contributed 5.4% of our revenue to impact;
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⋒ Sequestered 13.2 tonnes of CO2 by choosing to use cork;
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⋑ Planted 3,486 more trees!
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⋓ Paid over $6.5k in rent to Aboriginal-owned and operated organisations for living and working on stolen land;
Read the full story now →
You can also read our previous Impact Reports here: 2020, 2021/2022.
1% TO OCEANS.
Since July 2024, we have pledged 1% of our revenue to the health and restoration of the worlds oceans.
We’ve chosen two organisations we trust to give your 1% to: CleanHub (Global) and Sea Forest Foundation (Lutruwita, Tasmania).
The ocean is arguably the most critical biome on the planet, especially for the carbon cycle, yet it receives wayyyyy less public interest than terrestrial environments. We’re focusing on two key areas of ocean health: ocean-bound pollution and kelp forest restoration.
Here’s a little more info on each of the organisations:
CleanHub
CleanHub builds and manages “CleanHubs”, waste collection facilities in major pollution hotspots (usually near the equator) that prevent and remove ocean-bound waste. Most specifically, CleanHub focuses on non-recyclable plastics, which are usually broken down and used in cement manufacturing. This reduces the cement industry's emissions massively, although it does still release emissions.
Since 2020, they have collected over 13,000 tonnes of waste. You can track our contributions via the live widget to the right of the screen.
Sea Forest Foundation
Sea Forest Foundation is the side project of award-winning Sea Forest farm in Triabunna, Tasmania. The Foundation is committed to rebuilding the once colossal giant kelp (macrocystis pyrifera) forests in Tasmania (Tasmania has lost over 90% of the kelp forests in the past 20 years). With their world-class team, they propagate and plant giant kelp directly into intertidal areas so that, ultimately, these seeded beds grow into natural, self-supporting forests.
Sea Forest Foundation was given a “forest scale” permit to run small trials of kelp restoration in 2022, and they are now beginning to plant out in the wild.
1% TO PAYING THE RENT.
Since 2022, we have pledged 1% of our revenue to paying the rent.
Paying the rent is a step we take with you, collectively:
it acknowledges that we live on stolen land,
that First Nations sovereignty was never ceded,
and that this always was,
and always will be,
Aboriginal land.
Each quarter, payment is made to a First Nations-led, grassroots organisation. Our partners are:
Djirra
Pay The Rent
First Nations Futures
Firesticks Alliance
This is just one of of many steps we can take in solidarity;
we hope to take many more, with you.
Here's a little more info on the organisations:
Djirra
Djirra is predominantly designed by and for Aboriginal women, a place where practical support is available to all Aboriginal women, particularly to those who are currently experiencing family violence or have in the past.
Djirra is the Woiwurrung word for the reed used by Wurundjeri women for basket weaving.
Pay The Rent
Pay The Rent is a grassroot-to-grassroots organisation, based on the lands of the Kulin Nation.
Run by a Sovereign Body of First Nations representatives, Pay The Rent ensures decisions are made transparently and are centred around the needs of First Nations people.
Rent payments are payments made for the use and benefit of occupying Aboriginal land, and as a mechanism of reparation.
First Nations Futures
First Nations Futures is a new First Nations-led funding platform that redistributes wealth and collectively invests in First Nations initiatives to create intergenerational change.
They aim to drive economic justice in Australia, and bring into being futures that center First Nations people and solutions.
Firesticks Alliance
Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation is an Indigenous-led network that aims to restore cultural burning practices by facilitating cultural learning pathways to fire and land management. It is an initiative for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to look after Country, continuously building on past knowledge to form new connections and identities.
Firesticks Alliance also focuses on the mentorship of future fire stewards and scientific monitoring to better understand fire's ecological impact on Country.
1% TO THE PLANET.
Thanks to you we've planted over 16,500 trees so far!!
We feel so grateful to be able to plant one tree for every dozen sold. Here is a little info on where your trees have been planted most recently...
Eyes Of Water, Brazil
Where
Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo, Brazil.
When
2024-2026.
Trees
Between 10 and 40 native species from the regions will be planted in and around the springs. These include the cashew tree, Brazil nut, arara nut-tree, Brazilian orchid tree, Jamaican nettle-tree and ambay pumpwood.
Your contribution
622 trees!
Project size
200,000 trees.
About the project
Instituto Terra is an award-winning NGO focused on ecological restoration. They launched the 'Eyes of Water' program back in 2010, with a vision to protect water access in Brazil specifically by restoring areas surrounding natural springs. In 2011, the UN listed this program in the top 70 best practises for conserving water globally. Our planting is part of a long-term project that seeks to restore 300,000 springs in Brazil by planting native vegetation, increasing canopy cover, improving soil health, changing climatic patterns and educating local communities on water sovereignty.
Guatemala Regenerative Agroforesty
Where
250 rural communities throughout Guatemala, primarily in Izabal.
When
2024.
Trees
Fruit trees such as citrus, cacao, rambutan, mango, avocado, café, guanaba, breadfruit/jackfruit (over 60 species total). As well as some native legumes, primarily gliricida sepium, inga edulis, erythrina americana and bursera simaruba.
Your contribution
1,214 trees!
Project size
875,000 trees.
About the project
We've funded a few agroforestry programs before, but this one seems especially robust. All community members that partake are trained and supported in small-scale organic agroforestry, with a major focus on increasing soil health and food security. Not only are the agroforestry systems all mapped out on contour (we love to see this!) all farmers must plant legumes in between rows, must not use any chemicals, must lay logs to capture nutrient/water run-off and must create their own mulch. Not only are the farms creating perennial food forests (mango, citrus, cacao, rambutan, etc) they're also encouraged to farm annuals with the legumes in between rows (e.g. cassava, corn, plantain). Moreover, the project is linked in with a central hub that purchases produce weekly from the farms, paying a fair price, and has equipment to mill flour, ferment fruit, etc.
Timor-Leste Community Forestry
Where
Municipality of Bacau, Timor-Leste.
When
2024.
Trees
The planting list is quite extensive, and all trees planted are part of a carbon certification program. Plants include Swietenia Macrophylla (Big Leaf Mahogany), Eucalyptus Urophylla (Timor White Gum), Casuarina Equisetifolia (Sheoak), Dalbergia Nigra (Rosewood), Santalum album (Sandalwood), Sterculia Foetida (Olive tree).
Your contribution
1,305 trees!
Project size
93,350 plants.
About the project
This project is centred around 10 Sucos (villages), in the Eastern part of Timor-Leste that primarily derive their livelihood from farming (75% of all employment in Timor-Leste comes from farming). Since 2010, these farming communities have received training and payment to establish agroforestry systems on their land. Not only does this provide food, fuel and income for the community, it also helps with climate resilience and sustainability targets. Recently, the project has linked in to the carbon market, so farmers are now receiving income via carbon offsetting programs. So far, over 80,000 tonnes of carbon have been sequestered, and 1200 families have directly benefited.