VinØ Program - 2026 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 the VinØ Program as they are automatically recognised as having achieved best practices.
Below is the annual VinØ Program report for the 2025/26 season.
2026 VinØ Champion
Pooley Wines - Steve Ferguson
2026 VinØ Most Improved Producer
Westella Vineyard - Jacquie & Will Adkins
VinØ Program Winners
| Champion | Most Improved Producer | |
| 2025 | Pooley Wines | Eversley Vines |
| 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 2025/26, with 26 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 was 2.60 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 is a higher proportion of members scoring above 3, showing continual improvement towards best practice.
The VinØ Program uses a self-assessed and practical workbook 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.
Members who complete the workbook with a minimum score of 2 on every question, or those which are externally certified, qualify to use the VinØ Logo. The percentage of members qualifying continues to grow.
Areas in which Tasmanian wine producers are performing well:
| Soil Health - Nutrition; Weed Control Strategy |
| Pest and Disease - Pest and Disease Management Plan; Grapevine Agrochemical Application Records; Vineyard Monitoring; Planting Material; Grapevine Trunk Disease Management |
| Water - Water Source; Irrigation Scheduling; Irrigation System & Maintenance |
| Biosecurity - Links with Other Wine Regions; Vehicles; Biosecurity Vineyard Inspections |
| People - Remuneration; Compliance |
Areas showing an opportunity for improvement:
| Biodiversity - Biodiversity Action Plan |
| Winery - Soil Around the Winery; Winery Water Management Program; Biodiversity Plan - Winery Site; Air |
| Waste - Winery Marc; Green Waste |
| People - Indigenous Culture |
2025/26 Participating Members
| Bellebonne | ||
| Broad Arrow Wines | ||
| Brown Family Wine Group | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Clover Hill | ||
| Dalness Farming | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Delamere Vineyard | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Derwent Estate | ||
| Eversley Vines | ||
| Freycinet Vineyard | ||
| Gala Estates | ||
| Handpicked Wines | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Hedon Lane | ||
| Hill Smith Family Vineyards | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Holm Oak Vineyards | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Marion's Vineyard | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Meadowbank | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Moorilla Estate | ||
| Nocton | ||
| Pooley Wines | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Pressing Matters | ||
| Puddleduck Vineyard | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Quiet Mutiny | Logo Standard Achieved | |
| Sisu Wines | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Small Wonder | Logo Standard Achieved | External Certification |
| Stoney Rise | ||
| Swinging Gate Wines | ||
| Westella Vineyard | ||
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.