Dog Ridge

Dogridge Vineyards is a family owned venture built up since the first vines were purchased in 1992 by Dave and Jen Wright. We produce a range of boutique wines from our 120 acres of premium McLaren Vale vineyards.

Dogridge is the name of an old-fashioned vine rootstock and strangely it caught our imagination. Given the main house is on a ridge overlooking the vines, and we are besotted with Curly Coated Retrievers you can figure it out.

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DogRidge “DUCK CHASE” vineyard was established in 2001 on a severely neglected elevated site overlooking McLaren Vale on the edge of the Onkaparinga Gorge National Park. The site was cleared again of all feral species and the valuable ancient gravelly soils brought back to life in preparation for the establishment of this state of the art vineyard. In our planning for this we retained significant open space which, with the help of Greening Aus...

We at DogRidge are proud of our environmental record. Our property management is focused on sustainability and includes minimizing the impact of the things we do on the environment, the incorporation of biodiversity into our vineyards, management and renovation of remnant areas of native vegetation, recycling both oak and green waste and conserving valuable water resources. Cleaning out semi-trailer loads of rubbish from creeks at DogRidge “TH...

The curly coated retriever-a dog not to be sniffed at.

Not every life-changing event announces itself with a bang- some just sneak up on you.  It all started when Fred left home at 17, leaving Jen with a bad attack of empty nest. Looking for a substitute for those endearing teenage traits of love, trusting naivety, helplessness, bad behaviour, no respect for property, unquenchable appetite and occasional incontinence, Jen decided a Lab...