VinØ Program - 2025 Annual Report
The VinØ Program (pronounced 'vin zero)' is Tasmania's best management practice system, designed and tailored to assist the island's producers to monitor, improve, benchmark and communicate their viticultural and winery practices.
It is a significant and important initiative, providing a user-friendly management and reporting tool. Program members each receive a detailed annual benchmarking report, which identifies areas of their business where they are performing well against best practices and areas requiring improvement. It also allows them to benchmark their performance against fellow program participants.
The VinØ Program aligns with the Australian Wine Industry Standard of Sustainable Practice - Viticulture and Winery and recognises formal accreditation programs (eg Sustainable Winegrowing Australia, Australian Certified Organics or Demeter Biodynamic). Tasmanian wine businesses that achieve certification under these programs can opt out of reporting their data through VinØ as they are automatically recognised as having achieved best practices.
Below is the annual VinØ Program report for the 2024-25 season.
VinØ Program Winners
| Champion | Most Improved Producer | |
| 2024 | Pooley Wines | Delamere Vineyards |
| 2023 | Stargazer | Westella Vineyard |
| 2022 | Pooley Wines | Barringwood |
| 2021 | Waterton Hall | Southwood Wines |
| 2020 | Pooley Wines | Cambridge Valley Vineyard |
The data...
Just under half of Tasmania's total vineyard area was managed under the VinØ Program in 2024/25, with 29 members particpating across vineyards and wineries
(Another 35% of Tasmania's vineyard area is managed under an external sustainability program, including Sustainable Winegrowing Australia, Organic or Biodynamic)
This season, the combined average score across all members resulted was 2.63 out of a perfect mark of 4.
Module Results
The program is divided into nine modules:
Program Member Results
Each question in the workbook is scored from "4 - excellent / best practice" to "0 - needs improvement". This enables each member to receive an overall score for their practices. This graph lists those overall scores. There was an improvement in the overall program for the season, reflecting continued improvement in member practices.
VinØ is a self-asessed and practical workbook used to improve sustainable practices. Some members choose to go a step further and participate in external, formal certification programs.
New wine producer members continue to join the VinØ Program
Areas in which Tasmanian wine producers are performing well:
| Soil Health - Nutrition; Soil, Acidity and Alkalinity Salinity Management; Weed Control Strategy |
| Pest and Disease - Pest and Disease Management Plan; Grapevine Agrochemical Application Records; Vineyard Monitoring; Agrochemical Transport; Planting Material; Grapevine Trunk Disease Management |
| Biodiversity - Conservation of Biodiversity |
| Water - Water Source; Irrigation Scheduling |
| Biosecurity - Links with Other Wine Regions; Biosecurity Vineyard Inspections |
| Waste - Unusable Chemical and Empty Containers |
| People - Remuneration |
Areas showing an opportunity for improvement:
| Water - Irrigation Records |
| Winery - Emergency Spill Response; Winery Water Management Program; Biodiversity Plan - Winery Site; Air |
| Waste - Waste Management Training; Winery Marc; Green Waste |
2024-25 Participating Members
| Bellebonne | ||
| Brown Family Wine Group | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Clover Hill | ||
| Dalness Farming | ||
| Delamere Vineyard | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Eversley Vines | ||
| Gala Estates | ||
| Handpicked Wines | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Hill Smith Family Vineyards | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Holm Oak Vineyards | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Invercarron Wines | ||
| Marion's Vineyard | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Meadowbank | ||
| Moores Hill | ||
| Moorilla Estate | ||
| Nocton | ||
| Pooley Wines | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Pressing Matters | ||
| Puddleduck Vineyard | ||
| Quiet Mutiny | ||
| Sisu Wines | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Small Wonder | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Southwood Wines | ||
| Stoney Rise | ||
| Swinging Gate Wines | ||
| Waterton Hall | ||
| Westella Vineyard | ||
2024-25 Carbon Action Program
22 businesses have signed up to measure, monitor and implement plans to reduce their carbon emissions. 45% of carbon emissions are produced by the supply chain (Scope 3), with 33% being produced directly through our businesses (Scope 1). Some of the carbon emission reduction activities that have been employed include the adoption of electric or hybrid vehicles, co-inoculation of malolactic fermentation bacteria, and the use of flotation instead of cold settling, as well as planting trees. Tasmania has the least carbon-intensive electricity grid in Australia, and members are supplementing this with the installation of solar panels.
On behalf of the Tasmanian wine sector,
Wine Tasmania thanks the Tasmanian Government for its support of this important initiative.
Wine Tasmania acknowledges the Aboriginal people as the traditional owners of lutruwita (Tasmania), our island home. We pay our respects to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community, their Elders past and present and recognise their unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, water and community.