Wines By Turkey Flat

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Turkey Flat Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

Barossa

Made from fruit grown on the historic hundred and fifty year old Black Flat Block, this intensely varietal Cabernet is infused with eucalypt from the old gums that grow along the creek bed.

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The highly prized Cabernet Sauvignon is grown on the banks of the Bethany Creek in a small picturesque vineyard surrounded by ancient gum trees. The ancient vines are planted to a single block on the river flat near the cellar door where they thrive on deep soils without the need for irrigation. The intense, concentrated fruit have made Turkey Flat famous the world over. Full bodied and intense, a fine, even, structure and chalky ripe grape tannins, as enhanced by extended maceration on skins. Harvested to ripe levels of Baumé, fermented at 22° to 30°C for fourteen to twenty-eight days on skins. Spontaneous malolactic in barrels, maturation for twenty months in new and prior use French oak barriques. Alcohol 14.5%


Aromatics of red and black currants, juniper berries and red pepper, cedar and subtle tobacco notes. A long, lingering palate of blackberries, red capsicum, wood spice, wild fennel and fine, firms tannins. This strictly limited release will improve for up to fifteen years.

Turkey Flat Mourvedre 2007

Barossa

Encounters with pure varietal Mourvèdre wine are rare. The origins are almost certainly Spanish where it is called Monastrell, the principal black grape of the five appellations around Spain's southeast and a component of the great growths from the Cotes du Rhone and Chateauneuf du Pape.

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One of the original grapes planted in the Barossa Valley, Mourvèdre thrives in the hot and dry conditions of summer. A very late variety in both bud break and ripening season, the Barossa is one of the few areas in Australia that can successfully ripen Mourvèdre. It is here, on the banks of Tanunda Creek where bush turkeys once roamed, that Johann Friedrich August Fiedler planted his first vines in 1843. Grapes are macerated on skins for twelve to eighteen days, inoculated to yeast L2226 and vinified at 20°C to 28°C. Treated to a spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrel followed by maturation for twenty months in a combination of new and prior use French oak hogsheads and puncheons. Approx 14.5%


Colour is a deep cherry red. Nose of plum, sweet spice and leather. The wine produced from Mourvédre's small, sweet, thick-skinned berries tend to be deeply coloured, rich in spice, high in alcohol and tannin, gamey when young and full of fruit. Palate is rich and intense, flavours of red berry fruits with a mineral flinty finish.

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Turkey Flat Rose 2012

Barossa

Turkey Flat is still the luminary, having taken the lead of the great Aussie Rosé revival. The winemaking team take the task of making Australia's best Rosé very seriously, dedicating an entire vineyard to ensure the continuity of style. A cépage of Grenache and Shiraz, Dolcetto and Cabernet Sauvignon, drier than most, displaying a complexity with balance that's very rare indeed.

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Turkey Flat is more than just a vineyard and home to the best Barossa wines, it is a family business that forms a vital part of the region's rich culture and heritage. A dry microclimate without irrigation produces concentrated fruit from the ancient vines. Barossa Valley enjoys the perfect weather patterns, it has for generations grown the most intensely flavoured grapes to create this style of wine. Vinified and assembled at the Bethany Road winery using traditional open fermenters, cap plunging, cold maceration, submerged cap fermentation and pumping over. Alcohol 13.0%


Rose colour, salmon pink. A nose of sweetly perfumed red fruits, raspberry, watermelon and cherry bouquet. Vibrant red berries with soft tannins before a crisp, dry balanced finish. A fresh wine to be enjoyed immediately, always well chilled and crisp. No oak treatment makes it lively and fresh, a stylishly modern Australian Rosé, an intensely flavoured pink wine to be enjoyed in its youth.

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Turkey Flat Shiraz 2009

Barossa

Distinguished Langtons Classification. Up to a fifth of the grapes will be picked off gnarled old vines dating back to 1847.

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Turkey Flat boasts some of the oldest Shiraz vines in the world. These living heirlooms yield wines that are floral, elegant and well structured. Grapes were harvested between March and April at complete ripeness and healthy levels of natural sugar concentration. Inoculated to yeast strains L2056, L2226, D254, EC1118, fermented at temperatures of 18ºC to 26ºC, the juices were kept on skins for ten to twenty one days. Cold soaking and extended time on skins achieves a firm tannin structure ensuring that the wine will continue to improve. Turkey Flat completed full malolactic in barrel and was treated to twenty months maturation under a combination of new and prior use French oak hogsheads. Alcohol 14.5%


Deep purple colour. Black cherry, liquorice and savoury spice bouquet. Bright and generous, concentrated fruit, youthful yet restrained tannins in support, refreshed by lively acidity. French oak adds depth and length of flavour, supporting a palate of blackberries, cedar and nutmeg. A complex and restrained wine which benefits from decanting to reveal great purity of fruit.

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Turkey Flat Shiraz 2010

Barossa

Distinguished Langtons Classification. Much of the credit for the best Shiraz made in the Barossa is due to old vines such as Turkey Flat. Dry grown, their roots extend metres into the soil in search of moisture. That they still exist is largely due to a far sighted quarantine scheme, as South Australia was spared the phylloxera outbreak which devastated the vineyards of Europe, America and subsequently parts of Australia in the late 1800s. Planted in 1847, the precious, gnarled old vines contribute the backbone of fruit for Turkey Flat Shiraz.

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Consecutive wet winters, a warm growing season and modest yields have made a Shiraz of rare quality. The use of exclusively French oak adds depth and length of flavour to the structure, supporting a palate of blackberries, cedar and nutmeg. The must is inoculated to yeasts L2056, L2226, D254, EC118. After ten to twenty one days on skins, juices are vinified at warm temperatures 18ºC to 36ºC. Extended pre and post ferment macerations contribute a fine tannin finish. The final wine was treated to a spontaneous malolactic in barrel and matured twenty months in a combination of new and seasoned French oak hogsheads. Alcohol 14.5%


Deep, crimson purple colour. Dark berries and cedar nose, wild blackberries, licorice and savoury spice, black pepper and plum. A concentraion of fruit on the palate, lingering flavours of blackcurrants and plum, raspberries, dark bitter chocolate and cedar fill the mouth with a brooding intensity. A beguiling drink, Turkey Flat will carry the distance with ease.

Turkey Flat is more than just a vineyard and home to one of the best Barossa wines, it is a family business that forms a vital part of the region's rich cultural history and heritage

It was here, on the banks of Tanunda Creek where bush turkeys once roamed, that pioneer Silesian settler Johann Friedrich August Fiedler planted the first Shiraz vines in 1843. His vines flourished and the land Section One, in the Hundred of Moorooroo was bought in 1865 by Gottlieb Ernst Schulz, a successful butcher who established a thriving retail business among the vines. Butchering developed into dairying, but the vineyards were always kept, until Peter, a fourth generation Schulz, and his wife, Christie, made the transition from grape growing to winemaking.

They transformed the historic bluestone butchers shop into the cellar door and heart of their Turkey Flat wine business, and made sure that the vines that Fiedler planted so long ago, now gnarled and twisted, are still a vital part of the process. And with good reason, for it is the intense, concentrated fruit from these ancient vines that set Turkey Flat wines apart and have made them sought after the world over.

Turkey Flat is the local name for the vineyard property and is believed to be so named by the original settlers in the late1840s after the large flocks of native bush turkeys (Australian Bustard) in the area. Turkey Flat wines are made from four individual vineyard estates, all owned by Peter and Christie Schulz. The original Section One vineyard has the Shiraz, Grenache and small parcels of Mataro and Semillon.

The highly regarded Cabernet Sauvignon is grown on the banks of the Bethany Creek in a small picturesque vineyard surrounded by ancient gum trees. Turkey Flat's Ros is made from the Menge Road estate Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache and Dolcetto vines, all grown specifically for this purpose. The Butchers Block blend of Mataro, Shiraz and Grenache is sourced from the Stonewell estate. This vineyard is planted on a unique combination of red-brown earth soils (terra rosa) on a unique underlying limestone base. Stonewell is also planted to Marsanne.

Most of the Turkey Flat vineyards survive only on natural rainfall, and where supplementary water is applied this is done so in very small amounts, and only to maintain healthy leaves and not to increase production. The vineyard yields vary from ten tonne/hectare at Ros to a mean two tonne/hectare for Shiraz.

"The establishment date of Turkey Flat is given as 1990 but it might equally well have been 1870 (or thereabouts), when the Schulz family purchased the Turkey Flat vineyard, or 1847, when the vineyard was first planted to the very old shiraz which still grows there today alongside 8 ha of equally old grenache. Plantings have since expanded significantly, now (in total) comprising shiraz (24 ha), grenache (10.5 ha), cabernet sauvignon (4.7 ha), mataro (3.7 ha) marsanne (2.2 ha), viognier (1 ha), roussanne (0.6 ha) and dolcetto (0.5 ha)." -James Halliday

http://www.turkeyflat.com.au/ - Turkey Flat

"The Barossa’s winemaking history started in the mid 1840s when the first commercial vineyards were planted by August Fielder, the Aldenhoven brothers and Johann Gramp (from which sprang Orlando). Shiraz vines planted in 1847, adjacent to Jacobs Creek just outside Tanunda, are still productive today. Although probably used originally to make a sweet port style, today’s tiny yields make a wonderful dry Shiraz under Peter and Christie Schulz’s Turkey Flat label." -Chris Shanahan.com

All of the Turkey Flat wines are made in the Bethany Road winery using traditional open fermenters. Barrel fermentation is followed by maturation in new and seasoned French oak hogsheads and barriques. Climate controlled barrel hall estate bottling further enhances the quality and delicacy of Turkey Flat wines.

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