This Saturday is Open That Bottle Night. The point of this wine movement around the world is that we shouldn’t save our ‘good’ wines for a special occasion – that we should enjoy them when they’re still drinking well. How many times have we all said ‘we can’t open that tonight, it’s too good –…
Today is International Syrah Day, and while we don’t have a Syrah in our wine range, we do love sharing information about wines and how they are made, so we think today is a great day to chat about Syrah vs Shiraz. Here’s a fun fact – Syrah and Shiraz are in fact the…
On Thursday, 20 April 2023, Barossa Australia (along with Langton’s), presents Australia’s most prestigious regional wine auction. The Barossa Wine Auction has been part of the Barossa Vintage Festival since 1965. Held every two years, part proceeds of the Auction are donated to the Barossa Australia Well-Being Fund, which supports the delivery of vital…
by Jess Ruciack With the release of the new vintages of Command Shiraz and Ashmead Cabernet Sauvignon, we have updated our Cellaring Chart – our guide to opening our wines that might be in your cellar/wine fridge. So if you’ve got some older vintages, now might be the time to have a look and make…
Cameron recently met with Elina Reddy from Foreign Influence TV to chat about Elderton Wines. The episode went to air in November on Foxtel, Channel 31 in Melbourne and Channel 44 in Adelaide. Cam and Elina wandered around Cellar Door and our barrel hall, so by watching you get a little glimpse behind the…
by Allister Ashmead and Cameron Malouf On Saturday, 5 November we held our second tasting in the Elderton Retrospective Series – where we opened six museum wines from our cellar. We are excited to see where these wines are in their evolution and today we are sharing our tasting notes about the museum wines we…
[view the story as a PDF] 2020 was a challenging year to grow grapes in the Barossa. With early summer heat coupled with hundred kilometre per hour winds during flowering meant that either the flowers were effectively burnt off or they simply blew away. Obviously, the results of this crazy weather meant that yields…
[view the story as a PDF] We were recently named #3 in the Halliday Wine Companion People’s Choice Award for the Top 10 wineries offering the best winery experience in Australia. We are certainly pretty chuffed to be number 3 in Australia. And we love that this is a people’s choice award – it…
[view the story as a PDF] Something that we don’t talk about enough in the Buzz is the incredible team of supremely talented people that we have working here at Elderton. With the Ashmeads at the helm (Cam and Jules, Al and Bec), the successes Elderton enjoy would not be possible without significant contributions…
[view story as a PDF] With both the 2019 and 2020 vintages well down in average yields we have moved very quickly through some of those wine (some selling out in just 4 months) and so have had a number of new vintage releases recently. If you have any questions about our wines,…
