95 points - Erin Larkin, Parker's Wine Advocate
This 2024 Winifred Grenache (fruit sourced in Eden Valley) is the sibling to the Wellington Grenache (fruit sourced in Greenock). This is everything we search for in Grenache: bright fruit on the red spectrum, a lashing of exotic spices and a sturdy structure of tannin in the mouth that, while providing shape, also feels pliable and sensuous. This has all the crushed quartz and gravel from Eden Valley and the detail and freshness as well. I love it. This is an excellent release of these two wines, and I am so glad to have tasted them today. 773 bottle produced. 14.3% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
95 points - Tyson Stelzer, The Barossa Mag
An exciting, brand new release of just 773 bottles from a patch of bush vines at a high 550m elevation in Mengler Hill, formerly the source of Thistledown's iconic Fool on a Hill. Elderton has created a sensitively crafted, brilliant first attempt that captures all the cool complexity of this lean and rocky site. It basks in rose petals and dried herbs, with a signature core of wild strawberry and raspberry fruit, intricately laced together with a fine weave of tannins.
94 points - Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front
Only 774 bottles made. Grown on a (single) vineyard at Mengler Hill in the Barossa. Bush vines. Fermented in foudre, aged in hogsheads.
This is an exciting wine. It’s possible that the alcohol shows a little more than is ideal, but it’s otherwise delicate and complex and, most importantly, delicious. Raspberry, ironstone, graphite, dried herbs, red licorice and distinct orange peel characters put on a quite wonderful show, ribbons of tannin then making it all seem immaculate. This wine puts Elderton firmly into the conversation around elite Australian grenache producers. It’s a beautiful wine, and a great addition to the Elderton offering.
94 points - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
Winifred, the second of the newly released grenache from Elderton, hails from a single patch of bush vines high up on Menglers Hill. It's flightier and shows more red-fruited flair than its western Barossan kin. Plum, raspberry and red apple tones meld with hints of souk-like spice, citrus blossom, cola, dried meats, sage, herb oil, poached rhubarb and earth. There is a spaciousness and mineral line borne of altitude and angle here, everything in its right place, silken as it sails.
