Bondar is a family wine company making wines from McLaren Vale and Adelaide Hills. Our home is the iconic Rayner Vineyard, which lies on the border of the Blewitt Springs and Seaview sub-regions of McLaren Vale. Our vision is to make wines that are lighter, brighter, more savoury, structured and intriguing… Different.
In 2025 Bondar was named the Best Value Winery in Australia by the James Halliday Wine Companion. It is a 5-red star rated winery. Further achievements include;
- Top 100 wineries in Australia, Halliday Wine Companion, 2025 (#29)
- Top 100 wines in Australia, Nick Ryan, The Weekend Australian 2025 (Violet Hour Shiraz)
- Top 100 wines in Australia, James Suckling, 2025 (Rayner Vineyard Grenache)
- Runner-up Best Winemaker (Andre Bondar), Halliday Wine Companion, 2024
- Runner-up Best Value Winery, Halliday Wine Companion, 2024 and 2023
- Top 50 vineyards of Australia, Young Gun of Wine, 2021
- Top 50 Young Guns of Wine, 2020 and 2018
- Best New Winery, Halliday Wine Companion, 2017.
"Bondar’s McLaren Vale wines are full of energy, drive, fruit power and more. Bondar’s wines are of such relentless quality that everything produced here is almost guaranteed to be good."
- Campbell Mattinson, Top 100 Wineries of Australia, Halliday Wine Companion 2023 (number 52).
A few of our favourites
Cellar Door
148 McMurtrie Road, McLaren Vale
Monday - Thursday: 12pm-4pm
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 11am-5pm
Throughout the winter months we are offering a hosted tasting experience with our winemaker Andre Bondar.
Please click below to learn more.
“Marquee McLaren Vale vineyard now in the hands of some really good people, really good winemakers. It’s a very exciting proposition. The resulting wines, so far, short as the tenure has been, have been great.”
- Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
“There must be a bit of magic behind Bondar. All of the wines have an ethereal quality”
- Jane Faulkner, James Halliday Wine Companion 2018
“Bondar is certainly a name worth becoming familiar with.”
- Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“A husband and wife team that has done everything right from
the outset of Bondar Wines”
– James Halliday, Wine Companion 2023
Get regular deliveries with
the Bondar Wine Club
Make your life easier, always have good wine to hand, try new things. Join the Bondar Wine Club to receive 6 or 12 bottles of our wine, twice each year, delivered to your door.
We acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the McLaren Vale region. We recognise that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today. We acknowledge that the land that we now take care at Bondar Wines is part of the traditional lands of the Kaurna people, and we respect their spiritual relationship with their country.