Quality

A team approach to ensure best practice in both the vineyards and winery is key to guarantee absolute quality in the bottle. Attention to detail in pruning, picking and winemaking, and using a combination of state of the art facilities and machinery with some tried and true traditional techniques, ensures that the wines of Elderton will always show great brightness, purity and quality.

Cellar Door recognition

We are very proud of winning the 2022 and 2019 South Australian Best of Wine Tourism Awards – Wine Tourism Services. This is a reflection of our friendly, knowledgeable staff who welcome you to the family.

Our Cellar Door is an Accredited Tourism Business – trustthetick.com.au

Accolades

5 red star winery
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012…

South Australian Best of Wine Tourism Award winner – Wine Tourism Services
Great Wine Capitals 2022 and 2019

Bronze Medal – Tourism Wineries, Distilleries and Breweries
South Australian Tourism Awards 2019

As a producer of premium Australian wines we are proud to be recognised as one of the top three South Australian Cellar Door experiences alongside Seppeltsfield Wines and d’Arenberg. It is a great honour for our small, family-owned winery. Jodhi Thoms, Cellar Door Manager

Silver Award – Cellar Doors
South Australian Tourism Awards 2016, 2015

Hall of Fame Inductee 2013
Brand South Australia

Great Australian Red Award Trophy Winner – Best Wine $25 – $60 (2020 Ode to Lorraine)

Top 100 Best Wines in Australia
Matthew Jukes 2014 (2010 Command Shiraz)
Matthew Jukes 2011(2008 Ode to Lorraine)
Matthew Jukes 2009 (2005 Command Shiraz)

‘Excellent’ category
Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine VII, VI, V, IV

Best in Class, Gold Medal (2006 Command Shiraz)
International Wine & Spirits Competition 2010

Critics Choice Award
Wine Spectator 2009, 2007, 2005

Top 100 Wines in the World
Wine Spectator 2008 (#16, 2005 Ode to Lorraine)
Wine Spectator 2004 (#27, 2000 Command)
Wine Spectator 2000 (#43, 1995 Command)

Wines of the Year
Decanter 2008

Top 100 Wineries in the World
Wine & Spirits Magazine 2005

World’s Best Shiraz (1996 Command Shiraz)
International Wine & Spirits Competition 2000

Jimmy Watson Trophy Winner (1992 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon)
Melbourne Wine Show 1993

One of Australia’s modern classics…
Wine Spectator

This traditional Barossa winery seems to be getting better and better… lavishly rich, exuberant, muscular efforts…
Robert Parker Jr, The Wine Advocate

Elderton reds are luscious, hedonistic wines full of honesty in that they reflect the age of the vines and the special piece of dirt in which they grow.
Andrew Wood, Devine Magazine

The founding Ashmead family continues to impress with its wines… Elegance and balance are the keys to these wines…
James Halliday

A delightful tasting of rich and powerful, yet well-integrated, balanced wines. The Elderton jewels of Command and Ashmead deserve their rightful place among the
Barossa – indeed, Australian – icons of red wine!
Winestate

The most impressive wine in the tasting… Elderton Shiraz Barossa Command 1998 (99 points). Utterly seamless…
‘Australian Reds Retrospective’, Wine Spectator