2024 Elderton 'Wellington' Grenache

Old vine | Single vineyard | 1332 bottles produced

94 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion (June 2025)
One of two new grenache releases from Elderton wines, the Wellington hails from the sandy loam over red clays of the Elderton Greenock vineyard on the Western Ridge. Dark cherry, red plum and blue fruits with a slide of blood orange and amaro (hello 25% whole bunch). It's cut with medina spice, grilled fig, sage, dried herbs and crushed ironstone, with plenty of sinew and compression in the chalky tannin array. Very good indeed, this one; savoury, structured and spicy.

94 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Grown on a (single) contoured vineyard at Greenock in the Barossa. 
This is a bright, perfumed grenache with pristine fruit to the fore and oak in the background at most. It’s a modern Australian grenache in the best meaning of those words. It tastes of bright red cherry and raspberry, peppercorns, aldehyde, violets and assorted spices. It gives an impression of both elegance and polish. There’s a gentle warmth, a gentle nuttiness, and beautiful fine-grained tannin. It’s a beautiful wine.

About the Wine...From the Producer:
This wine is named after our maternal Grandfather, who helped Lorraine and Neil to start Elderton Wines. Gramps, as we called him, was a larger than life personality that always had an eye for a great opportunity. He loved fine wines, especially the big reds of the Barossa.

From our Greenock vineyard on the Western Ridge of the Barossa Valley, established by the Helbig family in 1915. This beautiful contoured block of Grenache was planted in 1969. Sandy loam over red clay with patches of ironstone throughout, the vines here are quite lean in terms of vigour and seem happy that we ask very little of them  as we prune to low bud numbers. In recent years we have applied straw mulch under vine to keep the soil and rootzone cool, whilst providing beneficial nutrients to the soil as it decomposes over time.