Turkey Flat Vineyards

Turkey Flat Vineyards is a wine estate located in Barossa Valley in Australia. It was here, on the banks of Tanunda Creek where bush turkeys once roamed, that pioneer Silesian settler Johann Friedrich August Fiedler planted the first vines in 1847.

It still produces Shiraz wines from these vines planted in 1847 – some of the oldest in the world. But the estate now has vines, as well, at Bethany, Koonunga Hill and Stonewell, producing generous, warm, friendly reds, a full, fresh white blended from three Rhone Valley varieties and one of the purest, fruitiest rosés around – blended from grenache, shiraz, cabernet and dolcetto. The reds, though, are always the highlight. 

The vineyards are now managed by 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.

Turkey Flat has been included in Wine-ark’s “Australia’s Most Collected Wines” after an exhaustive cataloguing of more than 3,000,000 bottles of wine in cellars across the country.