Turkey Flat Butchers Block Red 2012
Rhone Red Blends
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2012
Size
750ML
ABV
14.5%
Features
Screw Cap
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Winemaker Notes
The 2012 BBR is an aromatic and subtly structured wine with Shiraz providing a backbone of solid tannins and luscious depth of flavour. Grenache provides a dash of spice and cherry sweetness, taming the Shiraz beautifully whilst Mourvedre adds extra layers to the tannins and a little funk and fragrance.
Blend: 45% Shiraz, 30% Grenache, 25% Mourvedre
Other Vintages
2005-
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Wine
Turkey Flat is more than just a vineyard and home 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 Salesian 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.
BJW00240_2012 Item# 139532