Awards and Accolades

90 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
"It’s right in the zone. It’s an attractive blend of red and black berried fruit flavours, teamed beautifully with anise, leather and those dried, almost rusty spice characters so common in Barossa reds. It’s balanced, it’s ripe, it’s warm but not excessively so. Or not distractingly so. In short, it drinks like a charm, and has plenty of regional character."

2014 Vintage: 94 Points - James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion
"48% shiraz, 28% grenache, 24% mataro. Without question one of the best Barossa Valley examples of this blend, synergy its hallmark as it brings its array of red berries, plum, blackberry/cherry flavours onto the stage, emphatically leaving confection behind. Great value."

From the Winery

Turkey Flat wines are made from individual vineyard estates. The original Section One vineyard has the Shiraz, Grenache and small parcels of Mourvedre, Rousanne and Viognier. The highly regarded Cabernet Sauvignon is grown on the banks of the Bethany Creek in a small picturesque vineyard surrounded by ancient gum trees. The “Butchers Block” blend of Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvedre 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. The Marsanne plantings are also at Stonewell.

A dry winter and growing season led to the earliest vintage on record. Though quick the vintage yielded robust flavours and colours.

Harvested:
February-March 2015
Maturity at Harvest: 13°-15° Baumé
Oak Treatment:100% French, 6% new
Whole Bunch:12%
Bottled: July 2016
Cellar: Up to 10 years
MLF: Spontaneous in barrels