Orange River Cellars
The largest cellar in the southern hemisphere, processing the Orange River valley's desert harvest.
Trip Role
Ideal stay
Our take
Wine at a scale you won't see anywhere else in SA, in the desert.
Wine at a scale you won't see anywhere else in SA, in the desert.
- Trip Role
- Only If Nearby
- Ideal Stay
- 1-2 hours
Why it's worth your time
Not a boutique tasting — this is wine at scale, across hundreds of kilometres of riverbank. Worth a stop at the Upington cellar if you're crossing the Northern Cape, with a modest tasting room and a sense of the scale of desert viticulture.
What we love
The sheer scale of the operation, and the sense of a different kind of wine country.
What to know
The largest cellar in the southern hemisphere, pressing grapes from hundreds of producers across roughly 300km of the Orange River — desert viticulture at industrial scale.