The Winery

+ OUR STORY

Since 1997, we have been crafting Mino + Co wines in the Village of Hanwood, part of New South Wales' historic Riverina wine region.

Mino + Co wines honour both our Sicilian roots and our Australian soil. Old meets new - heritage meets innovation - passion meets possibilities - with our three award-winning labels: A Growers Touch, Signor Vino and Little William.

+ SUSTAINABILTY

At Mino + Co we like to work with the land, not against it. Our region is hot and dry, not unlike areas of Southern Italy, which is why we choose to grow varietals that thrive in the heat, without the need for excessive irrigation.

Our location, between Australia's two great rivers - the Murray and Murrumbidgee - is famed for its agriculture, but more than ever we need to be mindful of the resources we've been blessed with.

We continue to implement and improve our sustainable vineyard and winemaking practices. It has been a key focus and priority for our winery in its history and will continue to be into our future.

Key Sustainability Practices.

- Sustainable framing practices, include water conservation in the vineyard and the cellar. We have various dams located on the winery grounds to catch water and up-cycle to feed our vineyards. We also have a serious of industry leading settling ponds and dams to treat waste water out of the winery which is used on the estate to water our grapes and garden.

- Use of lower risk pesticides in the vineyard. Moving off synthetic products both in the vineyard and in the winery is a major focus to the winery. These practices include using 100% vegan additives for all of our wines. In vineyard we plant varieties that are resistant to mildews and are using bio-pesticides that are based on botanical ingredients. 

- The winery composts all its grape Marc and use as fertiliser on the vineyard.

- Running Mino + Co off a 100KW Solar System which supplies daily power to the winery as opposed to purchasing off the grid. 

- Use of VSD technology on all of our pumps and major machinery to reduce energy consumption on start up/wind downs.

+ FOOD & BEVERAGE SAFETY

- We are HACCP accredited in our wine production. HACCP stands for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point and is a system that recognises a food/beverage business  has developed, documented and implemented tools to help identify and control food safety hazards.