Turkey Flat Sparkling Shiraz NV
Case price equivalent to £28 per bottle
Turkey Flat Sparkling Shiraz
Region: Barossa Valley, Southern Australia
Vintage: NV
Bottle size: 6 x 75cl
Grape: Shiraz
ABV: 14%
Beneath a rich shade of crimson lies at its heart a deep, complex stucture. Full of dried cranberry, cacao, blueberry and cherry. This wine is bold yet dazzling with a mosaic of flavours and a finish to match. Cellar up to 10 years.
A select few barrels of Shiraz are set aside for sparkling production. Rich in primary fruit and naturally low in tannin this Shiraz is perfect for this bottle-fermented sparkling wine. The Shiraz then goes into a solera system to join other base wines and aged for an average of 3 years in French casks. The base wine is then blended and tiraged in the traditional method. Following the secondary fermentation the wine is left to mature on lees for approximately 24 months before disgorgement and liquoring with their own Pedro Ximenez.
Turkey Flat is the local name for the vineyard property and is believed to be named by the original settlers in the late 1840s after the large flocks of native bush turkeys in the area. It was here that the first Shiraz vines were planted in 1847, propagating from cuttings from Hermitage Hill in the Rhône Valley in the 1830s and still remaining a productive part of Turkey Flats vineyards today.
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