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…
The Barossa Vintage Festival is a fun time in our region. It is a celebration; a great combination of heritage-based events and new and exciting things to do throughout the Barossa over five days in April. The Barossa Vintage Festival program features around 90 events over the five days (19-23 April) and showcases food, wine and…
2017 might be a vintage that may not ever arrive. This time last year the vintage crew were frothing at the mouth about to start processing fruit, but this year with the cold and the wet that we have had, vintage this year may be like the Coonawarra. For the record that is not…
The Barossa Vintage Festival is a fun time in our region. It is a celebration; a great combination of heritage-based events and new and exciting things to do throughout the Barossa over 5 days in April. Due to the number of events Vintage Festival boasts, we will have to do a number of posts about…
An amazing Happy and Prosperous New Year to all of you blog readers. We’re back! 2017 is flying along – isn’t it? Little Louis is so keen with the start of the year, he is already waiting for the 2017 installment of Santa below. His concept of time still isn’t that great at 3⅓ years…
by Jess Ruciack The Barossa is a fantastic place to visit year-round, but as locals we particularly love having warmer, sunshiny days and particularly the warmer evenings so we can lounge outside and look at the stars. If you are planning a visit to the Barossa this summer, we’ve put together some information that might…
Blog time people! It comes around so fast – well it does for me in any case. Our in-house PR person, Jess (amongst her many positive traits of being red haired, vegetarian and a cricket tragic), looked me in the eye on Tuesday and said you better have something good for the blog page…
We were very excited on Friday, 4 November 2016, to be at the South Australian Tourism Awards dinner to receive a Silver Medal for Cellar Door! Jodhi (Events & Concierge), Tush (Cellar Door Manager) and Jess (Marketing & Sales) enjoyed representing Elderton at the dinner. The category of Tourism Wineries, Distilleries and Breweries was strongly contested, with…
