Elderton Wines - Nuriootpa
Direct Phone Number : (08) 8568 7878
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Elderton Wines is a small family owned and operated winery, situated in the heart of the Barossa. The Elderton vineyard, which was planted around 1900 by Samuel Elderton Tolley, was purchased by the Ashmead family in the late 1970's and started producing labelled bottled estate wine from the 1982 harvest.
After a decade of hard work, the winery short to prominence in the early 1990's, after winning the prestigious Jimmy Watson Trophy at the 1993 Melbourne Wine Show. There has been an amazing amount of further wine show success including the World's Best Shiraz Trophy at the 2000 London International Wine and Spirits Competition. Elderton has also enjoyed being the darling of the worlds wine press, with great endorsements given by James Halliday, Robert Parker, The Wine Spectator Magazine as well as countless others. In 2005, Wine and Spirit Magazine named Elderton in the top 100 wineries in the world.
