Based in the heart of Australia's Barossa Valley and benefiting from 100 year old vineyards, Elderton Wines is a world-class producer of premium table wines specialising in full-bodied reds. Winner of Australia's most coveted wine award the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy (1993) and the prestigious London International Wine & Spirit Competition's World's Best Shiraz Trophy (2000), Elderton remains proudly owned by the Ashmead family (above Allister, Lorraine & Cameron).

Samuel Elderton Tolley established the Elderton Vineyards in the early 1900s. The main purpose in developing the vineyard was to supply Barossa wineries with premium fruit. The Ashmead family purchased the vineyard in 1979 and went about restoring it to its former glory after a period of neglect. Modern viticulture practices were employed and the vineyard flourished. Neil & Lorraine Ashmead produced Elderton's first vintage in 1982 - now considered a collector's item and the first Command Shiraz followed suit in 1984 making it one of Australia's oldest blockbuster wines. In 2003 Elderton finished building its own winery in Nuriootpa (formerly a Penfolds site), meaning that Elderton is now able to grow, produce & bottle wines all on the family estate.

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