Alvi’s Drift is a 7000-tonne winery in the Breede River Valley. The winery is owned by the Van Der Merwe family, Bertie Van Der Merwe along with his 2 sons, Johan a lawyer who has been working on the property for 10 years, and Alvi, a medical doctor who has been on the property for 7 years. Alvi’s Drift is the name of the drift near the farm, crossing the Breede River. The Drift was built by Alvi’s grandfather in 1928.
The winery is only one part of a long-running and successful business. The property is vast and diverse with a large dairy herd and facilities for the commercial packaging of milk, a cheese-making facility, a piggery, citrus, stone fruit, fodder production as well as the 410ha of vines. Johan manages the dairy and piggery and Alvi manages the orchards and winery.
