Join us as we taste through amazing wines of South Africa and Johnathan talks to us about biodynamics and slow winemaking! We’ll be pouring 4 of us his current wines and opening up some past vintages!

In 1997, John and Ginny Grieve purchased the Avondale Estate at the foot of the Klein Drakenstein mountains as their family farm. Their youngest son, Johnathan Grieve, took up the challenge of transforming this long-used land into a robust, balanced vineyard ecosystem that would ensure that Avondale will support the lives of future generations. The first vintage under the Avondale label was produced in 1999.

Avondale’s ethos, Terra Est Vita meaning ‘Soil is Life’, encapsulates Avondale Estate as a dynamic living system where soil, water and energy, plants, animals and people are part of a complex web of relationships and networks, interconnected and interdependent.

The picturesque 160-hectare farm that is today known as Avondale has been under cultivation for more than 300 years. Early records show that the land was one of the first in the Paarl valley to be allocated specifically for the production of wine grapes.