Turkey Flat

It's the day that all Australian winemakers hold their breath for... the release of the new James Halliday Wine Companion and his associated scores...

We're certainly no exception & eagerly logged in (with the rest of Australia, temporarily bringing down the site - oops!) - we can say we're very happy with what we found, being listed in the top 100 wineries of Australia, and the top 10 of the Barossa just the tip of the iceberg...

THE SC...

The birth of Turkey Flat took place in 1847 when a far-sighted Silesian refugee Johann Frederick August Fiedler planted Shiraz vines in the rich alluvial soils adjacent to the Bethany Creek. Fiedler was the brother-in-law to Pastor August Kavel, who led the German emigrants to Australia’s Barossa Valley, and he settled on one of the first parcels of land to be surveyed in the area.

Turkey Flat is the local name for the vineyard property and...

Turkey Flat owns five vineyards spread over a radius of 20km from Bethany in the south, Stonewell in the west, with other vineyards in the east. They cover very different sub-regions and give us the ability to blend the attributes of each subregion into our wines.

To a large degree our winemaking begins in the vineyard. We spend a great deal of time managing vine vigour, controlling shoot growth as well as shoot and bunch thinning. This hel...