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.


Minimum Season 2022 Impact Story

Our 2022 IMPACT STORY (2023 IMPACT STORY IS COMING SOON!!

In 2022 we:

  • ⋐ Contributed 8.1% of our revenue to impact!

  • ⋒ Composted over 30 tonnes of organic 'waste' back into soil!

  • ⋑ Planted 6,993 trees!

  • ⋓ Got certified B Corp!

Read the full story now →

You can also still read our previous Calendar Year 2020 Impact Report HERE 

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 and Minimum organic wines

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 & Minimum Organic Wines

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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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1% TO THE PLANET.

Thanks to you we've planted over 14,600 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...


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.

 


New Zealand Tree Planting x Minimum Organic Australian Wines

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 Tree Planting x Minimum Organic Wines

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.

 

Regenerating Marna Banggara

Regenerating Marna Banggara

Where
Point Pearce, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

When
2022 and 2023.

Trees
Mallee Box, Golden Wattle, Drooping Sheoak, Native Apricot, Wreath Wattle, Umbrella Bush, Elegant Wattle, Coast Bitter-Bush, Common Oak-Bush, Sweet Bursaria, Native Scurf-Pea, Black-Anther Flax-Lily, Sticky Hop-Bush, Ruby Saltbush, White Goodenia, Dwarf Hakea, Dryland Tea-Tree, Coast Daisy-Bush, Twiggy Daisy-Bush & Seaberry Saltbush.

Your contribution
563 trees!

Project size
70,000 trees & plants.

About the project
Located in an Indigenous Protected Area on the Yorke Peninsula (South Australia), Nurungga Country, is a Eucalyptus Porosa (Mallee Box) woodland. Named Marna Banggara (marna = ‘healthy or prosperous’ and banggara = ‘Country’), the project collaborates with Landcare Australia and the Nurungga Traditional Owners to restore native vegetation and increase landscape connectivity on this site. The site is home to several threatened species, including the Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat. The carbon rights generated by the project will be owned and managed by the Narungga Community and the Indigenous Land Council, and the goal is to revegetate 350 hectares this year!

Honduras Tree Planting x Minimum Organic Wines

Honduras Regenerative Agroforestry Network

Where
Honduras.

When
2022 and 2023.

Trees
Predominately Inga, Avocado, Citrus, Rambutan & Cacao with some other hardwood and fruiting trees depending on the specific micro-climates of each site.

Your contribution
1,141 trees!

Project size
300,000 trees & plants.

About the project
For over nine years, a group of Honduran locals have been establishing a network of organic, regenerative agroforestry farms. Utilising mainly alley cropping (planting rows of trees, in between which crops are planted), the group has worked with over 300 subsistence farming families to establish agroforestry systems. The major goal of the project is to help establish climate-smart systems that deliver food sovereignty within 2-3 years, as well as increasing soil fertility, nutrient cycling and crop diversity. Another goal of the project is to hopefully present regenerative agroforestry as a substitute for the fairly common, but destructive, technique of slash-and-burn agriculture by using trees to fix nitrogen in the soil. The project also helps prevent erosion and helps to maintain watersheds and in some cases revive long-lost springs.

One Tree Planted Every Dozen Sold in India Mangrove Project Minimum Organic Wines

Women-led mangrove restoration in India: Part II

Where
Andhra Pradesh.

When
2022 to 2024.

Trees
Avicennia marina, avicennia officinalis, axcoecaria agallocha, rhizophora mucronata, bruguiera gymnorrhiza as well as some supporting species like thespesia populne and hibiscus tiliaceus.

Your contribution
1,324 trees!

Project size
466,200 trees & plants.

About the project
Around 350 hectares of mangroves in the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh (a South-Eastern state of India) will be restored via community participation. As well as the initial mangrove plantings, a nursery with capacity of 400,000 mangrove saplings per year will be established by a network of 10 women-led community groups. The plantings will be space at around 3,300 per hectare, with a 50-hectare zone dedicated to an integrated shellfish/fish farming operation. Not only will this restore ecological niches for a variety of species (fish, bivalves, birds, etc) it will also function as a much needed buffer against strong winds/waves and encroaching salinity issues from global warming-induced changes to the ocean. The project will see around 100 hectares of salt-effected agricultural land being re-engaged with as mangrove-based agricultural and aquaculture, directly benefitting an estimated 5,000 people in the region.