Elderton Command Shiraz 2020 - Caravan Wines & Spirits

Elderton

Elderton Command Shiraz 2020

Style Wine Australia Red
Producer Elderton
Origin Barossa Valley (Nuriootpa)
$140 / btl
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What it tastes like.

Our Command from 2020 is a wine to savour. Whilst we could say that about every Command, in 2020 we had a tiny harvest, on the back of a frost year in 2019. Fortunately, after tricky weather at flowering, we didn’t need to contend with frost also for 2020. With such small volumes, the 2020 Command is a story about intense concentration and depth of flavour. From the vineyard, we could see the intensity of fruit we had to work with for our release of Command. Spanning from the North Para River on the western side of our Command vineyard to Cellar Door at the eastern end, we see a gradual increase in clay content which corresponds with a decrease in vigour over the vineyard. For this reason we harvest the Command fruit in a couple of picks, aiming to achieve the perfect balance in each pick. Destemmed fruit was fermented in open cement vats for 7-14 days. Post-pressing, the new Command was transferred to a combination of new French and American oak from coopers we know and trust. The wine went through malolactic fermentation and further maturation, allowing the powerful fruit to come together with the long and savoury edged tannin profile.
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About Elderton.

Barossa Valley (Nuriootpa) ·Est. 1979

Elderton is a Barossa Valley estate on the banks of the North Para River in Nuriootpa, working a vineyard first planted in 1894 by the Scholz family. Neil and Lorraine Ashmead bought the property in 1979, made the first wine under the Elderton label in 1982, and the second-generation Ashmeads — Cameron and Allister — have run the operation since 2003. The house came to prominence with the 1992 Cabernet Sauvignon, which won the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy in 1993.

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How to pour it.

  • Temperature

    16–18°C · cellar temperature, never warm

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Why Caravan backs Elderton

Barossa Valley (Nuriootpa)

The Nuriootpa vineyard at the centre of Elderton was planted in 1894 by German settler Samuel Elderton Tolley's predecessors, the Scholz family; Tolley acquired the site in 1916 and gave it the Elderton name. The vines went derelict during the South Australian vine-pull scheme of the 1970s and were nearly grubbed out. Neil and Lorraine Ashmead took the property over in 1979 — reportedly with the previous owner offering the surrounding 72 acres of old vines free if they bought the house.

The first vintage under the Elderton label was 1982. Recognition came quickly: the Elderton Cabernet Sauvignon 1992 won the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy in 1993, the Australian show circuit's most prized red-wine award. Cameron and Allister Ashmead took the reins in 2003 and have widened the estate's footprint with a Craneford (Eden Valley) vineyard purchased in 2007 and a Greenock site added in 2010, giving the house holdings across three Barossa sub-regions.

The estate works dry-grown old-vine Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache and Mourvèdre across the three sites. The Ashmead Cabernet Sauvignon and Command Shiraz are the cellar-worthy single-vineyard reds; the Estate range covers Shiraz, GSM, Cabernet, Riesling and Chardonnay; the second-label Ode to Lorraine Cabernet–Shiraz blend reaches a broader by-the-glass audience.

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