SUSTAINABILITY

We have an EPA-approved program that recycles 100% of our winery and brewery waste water and winery solids such as grape skins and stalks. We then re-use the water as irrigation and solid waste as compost in our vineyards.

We harvest every drop of rain that falls on our Estate buildings and have 2.5 million litres of rainwater storage for use in our winery, brewery and restaurant, to ensure we are as self sufficient as possible.

Chemical usage is kept to a minimum. Wherever possible we use organic or elemental fungicides and biological forms of weed control, such as the planting of cover crops and using straw mulch under vines. The use of straw mulch and cover crops also has the benefit of reducing soil moisture loss through evaporation.

Not only do we use organic chemicals, our hi tech sprayer unit captures and recycles overspray, resulting in 50% less spray required. 

We have planted native trees and shrubs over the property to improve the biodiversity of our land and the health of the Polish Hill River catchment which flows through the property.

Owner and Managing Director, Andrew Pike, founded and is still actively involved in the Hill River Natural Resources Management Group, which has worked to re-vegetate degraded areas of land and establish natural wetlands with native species of flora.

We have a solar energy plant that is situated on the roof of our winery. This solar plant generates 99 kw, which caters for approximately 30% of our business's energy requirements.