Dragonridge Wines

15/02/2023

𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁
Iconic Dragonridge Wines at incredible discount to make room in our cellar for this year's harvest. 3 whites and a very special red blend on offer. Order online at www.dragonridge.co.za

01/01/2023

Happy New Year everybody!
Wishing you all the best for the year ahead.

12/09/2022

Don't miss this delicious SPRING SPECIAL on two very special wines from the Swartland. Buy online at www.dragonridge.co.za

14/02/2022

The Swartland is buzzing with busy winemakers. We were harvesting Viognier last week. Read more on our blog:

This week we began harvesting and making wine. The grapes are good quality this year but the baboons, growing in number on the mountain, have taken tons off the crop. Here the team is picking viognier which is then taken to the winery to be destemmed and crushed, before being pressed. After settling...

01/02/2022

Thank you Swartland Wine Olive Route for this great article!

Written by Clifford Roberts; Photography Johan Viljoen Of all the weird things to come out of the early days of Covid, one of the biggies must be the concept of sunning one’s perineum. We’ll leave you to google that for yourself. The point being, some thought it was natural. More natural however...

12/02/2021

The 2021 harvest has begun and Johan says it is medium-size and good quality. "The grapes are picked by hand and then brought to the winery – in our case travelling an average of 500 metres – and there they are crushed and de-stemmed, pressed lightly to avoid bitter tastes, and then put into tank or barrel. Nothing is added. Fermentation occurs through the wild yeasts that live on the grape skins and the sugars are in the grape and never added."
Read more about how Johan makes wine the natural way on the website here: https://dragonridge.co.za/natural-wine-making-methods/

02/06/2020

We were blessed with a bumper olive crop this season. Our 2020 intense extra virgin olive oil is available at discounted prices for 5L and 25L containers. Free delivery in Cape Town, Paarl, Malmesbury and the Riebeek Valley. To order call 022 487 1153 or email us at [email protected]

10/05/2020

"Natural is what the wines emphatically are. “Natural” is a notoriously difficult category to define, and a contested one, but there are very few wine ranges in South Africa that meet the more rigorous standards, which would include hands-off, additive-free winemaking (not uncommon these days, especially in the Swartland) but also organic viticulture (that’s the really tricky bit). As to truly minimal sulphur content, that’s even rarer (and the most contested of the requirements). Dragonridge wines, however, meet all of those standards. " -
Tim James, South African Wine Writer. LINK IN BIO to buy these incredible organic Dragonridge Wines wines online. Delivery/pickup after lockdown.

06/02/2020

Mike & Les drinking Dragonridge in Melbourne, celebrating their friend's birthday. Happy birthday Cheryl!