As a Debian Mint user myself, I can confirm that.
You will install from debian's repositories by default, and installing from the ubuntu repos is not recommended.
Personally, I like to download the source of the latest WINE as they are published on this website, and compile them locally. If you want a version of wine later than than the one in Debian Testing, you have 3 options:
1. Download the .deb files for your architechture here:
http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/
and install them with gdebi or dpkg.
2. Enable the unstable (sid) debian repo, install libwine-bin (for version 1.6.2) or libwine-bin-unstable (for version 1.7.14), and (strongly recommended) immediately disable it. Enable it again to update wine, just be careful not to update everything while it's enabled, lest you accidentally update X.org and break your system or something.
3. Get the source and compile it yourself. All it should take are the following commands:
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apt build-dep wine
cd path/to/wine/extracted/source
./configure
make
sudo make install
Just note that build-dep only works if you have source repos, and may miss some important stuff, so watch carefully for the output of the ./configure command. It will report anything that may be missing.