On Sunday the 12th of November 2017 we are excitingly introducing a new event to our winery diary. With wineries quite often searching for unique events that allow them to share their wine, hospitality and stories with their customers, old and new, we feel this is going to be something pretty special. A mixed doubles…
A bit of change of pace this blog instalment. After 3 years of planning, it is finally starting to take shape. If unsure, we are talking about our new Cellar Door that hopefully will be revealed officially in October sometime. After travelling the world looking at cellar doors as far flung as Eden Valley, Europe,…
Jules and I have just landed back from a week in southern England. Admittedly we were a bit worried before travelling with some of the incidents that have happened there in the last 3 months, but truth be told we had no reason at all to fear anything in hindsight. It is such an incredible…
Every year post vintage our winemaker Richard, our viticulturist Peter Wild, Al and I venture off into the great unknown and go and investigate a wine region (purely for educational purposes of course). This is now a 3 year tradition. Last year we were wowed by the Disneyland like features of the Hunter and the…
As humans we seek advice from others on many things. What to wear, where to go, who to go with, what to eat, what to drink and…. what to eat and drink together. With the trend of Grenache based wines getting stronger and therefore making them easier to obtain you may find yourself wondering…
The biggest happening here at Elderton since my last blog has definitely been vintage. Everyone naturally asks and says – so how was it? Hand on heart, I can honestly say 2017 was excellent. All the Barossan winemakers are strutting around proud as punch with the wines that they have made. Ours, Richard is no…
Here is another installment of my monthly light hearted look at the happenings at Elderton. I reckon that I am probably preaching to the converted, but March in Adelaide has a very apt name –Mad March. That is because it is simply crazy or as the youngies say ‘cray-cray’! Who knows why, but as…
