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Cabernet Sauvignon - 2004 - Turkey Flat
Ref: A210804
A big, richly flavoured Cabernet with ripe black fruit and excellent grip.

Turkey Flat is more than just a vineyard as 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 shop 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.

The Cabernet Sauvignon vines are planted on the river flat near the cellar door where they thrive on deep soils without the need for irrigation. Cabernet Sauvignon vines produce fruit of exceptional richness and concentration when grown in sites such as this.

The 2004 has great varietal character and long term ageing potential. It displays classic Cabernet aromatics of red and black currants, juniper berries, red pepper and subtle tobacco notes.

Whilst full bodied and intense, this wine has a fine, even, structure and ‘chalky’ ripe grape tannins, enhanced from extended maceration on skins. Complex fruit flavours of ripe red and black berry fruits are under lain by subtle oak and grape tannins.

Price: £21.33
Including VAT at 17.5%

Qty:

Australia (South Australia)	2004	Medium Full Bodied
Cabernet-Sauvignon	Red	Beef/Game/Cheddar
Turkey Flat	Medium Dry	Drink or keep

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