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.
Starting July 2024, we are pledging 1% of our revenue to the health and restoration of the worlds oceans.
Each quarter, we will make a donation to a network of organisations helping improve ocean health. Our first payment will be made to CleanHub. And this donation will help remove over 500kgs of ocean-bound plastic from the Asia-Pacific region!
Can't wait to share more about this new initiative, and the other organisations we are partnering with in alliance with our oceans, in the coming months.
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. So far, rent payments have been paid to:
Djirra
Pay The Rent
Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation
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
To help celebrate International Women's Day, our first rent payment will be made to Djirra (Naarm).
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.
Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation
The vineyard from which we harvest our grapes is located on Yorta Yorta Country, stolen land.
Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation (YYNAC) is comprised of peoples with unequivocal bloodlines to the Original Ancestors of Yorta Yorta Country. YYNAC represents the descendants of these Original Ancestors and they have the power and right to approve/deny Cultural Heritage on Yorta Yorta Country.
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.
Waingake Native Restoration
Where
Tairāwhiti, New Zealand.
When
2024.
Trees
Aristotelia serrata (wineberry), Carpodetus serratus (putaputaweta), Coprosma robusta (karamu), Cordyline australis (cabbage tree/ti kouka), Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (kahikatea), Fuchsia excorticata (kotukutuku), Kunzea species (kanuka), Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka), Myrsine australis (red matipo), Pittosporum eugenioides (tarata), Pittosporum tenuifolium (kohuhu), Podocarpus totara (totara), Pseudopanax crassifolius (lancewood), Weinmannia racemose (kamahi).
Your contribution
592 trees!
Project size
167,500 plants.
About the project
This project is part of a long-term, staged transition of a previously monocropped pine plantation in the Northeast of New Zealand to a native broadleaf-podocarp forest (one of the indigenous forest types in New Zealand). Following the pine harvest, land will be handed back to a partnership represented by local iwi and hapū tribal groups. In the first year, mānuka trees will be planted at a high density, and in the following year a diverse set of natives (mostly tall tree species) will be interplanted. The team are also developing an "eco-sourcing" initiative for the seeds; seed collection and propagation carried out by local specialists in whakapapa. As such, a major feature of this project is re-establishing cultural wellbeing via community-led native forest restoration.
Philippines Indigenous Reforestation
Where
Within the Ancestral Domain of the Dumagat and Alta Indigenous communities. Aurora, Philippines.
When
2022 and 2023.
Trees
Native and endemic species including White/Red Lauan (Shorea contorta/negrosensis), Mayapis (Shorea palosapis), Yakal (Shorea astylosa), Malakatmon (Dillenia luzoniensis), Tangile (Shorea polysperma), Malabayabas (Tristaniopsis decorticata) and Agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis).
Your contribution
462 trees!
Project size
200,000 plants.
About the project
The planting project (988 acres) is located within the Ancestral Domain of the Dumagat and Alta Indigenous communities in the municipality of San Luis, province of Aurora in northeastern Philippines. Aurora Province is located in the central portion of the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor (SMBC), and the numerous degraded planting sites have specific characteristics that require different approaches. A primary goal of the project is to restore native vegetation to protect the areas from landslide and sea-level rise (as the areas are within 400m from the shoreline). Whilst being the ancestral homeland of the Dumagat and Alta Peoples, crucial for hunting, timber, food/medicine and sacred ritual sites, the area is also home to the critically endangered Philippine Eagle and several other endangered or vulnerable species. The local community will be the primary stakeholders and will manage the project and outcomes themselves, with mentorship and up-skilling where needed.