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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.

Bondar was named James Halliday's Best New Winery in his 2017 Australian Wine Companion, and has now reached (the highest) 5 red-star rating. Our wines have been awarded numerous 90+ scores from a range of critics and have picked up multiple trophies at the McLaren Vale Wine Shows. In 2018 and 2020 Andre Bondar was named one of the Top 50 Young Guns of Wine, and our Rayner Vineyard was listed in the top 50 vineyards of Australia in 2021 (YGOW).

In 2023 the Halliday Wine Companion team named Bondar among the Top 100 Wineries in Australia, placing us at number 52. We were also shortlisted in the Top 10 Best Value Wineries of Australia in both the 2023 and 2024 Halliday Wine Companion guides.

"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).

At Bondar our vision is to make wines that are bright and pure, finely structured, mid-weight yet concentrated in flavour, with a savoury element.

For us our “place” dictates the style, with our hands-off winemaking approach allowing the grapes to be heard with minimal winemaking artefact.

We do a lot of work in the vineyard to help achieve the house style, and in the winemaking process we use minimal inputs, wild fermentation, techniques such as whole bunches, extended time on skins, and picking the fruit earlier, to achieve the balanced, bright wines for which we aim.

"Bondar makes a very modern set of wines that stress fragrance, poise, subtle complexity and mid-weight drinkability, but there’s a strong link to the past in the wines, too. While the reds are significantly fresher than styles of old, Bondar is not pushing hard in any particular direction, instead he cleverly builds structure, texture and detail – some whole berries, some whole bunches, some extended skin contact, and a mix of vessels, including ceramic eggs – producing wines that feel thoroughly familiar and strikingly new, too." – Young Gun Of Wine, “Reinventing McLaren Vale” 2020.