Winter 2007
Dear Friends,
The past 12 months have seen some significant changes at Turkey Flat. Our long serving and much loved General Manger, Jaysen Collins, left in March to start his own business. Jaysen began working with us as an office manager in 1999 and has been an integral part of our company...
Summer 2006
Dear Friends,
Welcome to our second Christmas newsletter. This is a recent article by the well known wine journalist, Max Allen The Weekend Australian Magazine August 2006 “I was asked to contribute to a UK wine magazine poll the other day and nominate my ‘favourite Aussie wine...
Winter 2006
Dear Friends,
As the 2006 vintage draws to a close Christie and I have just attended the London International Wine and Spirit fair before returning home via Hong Kong for a number of meetings and tastings.
Our new winemaker, Jules Campbell has done a marvellous job with the 2006 Read more...
Winter 2005
Dear Friends,
The first few months of 2005 have seen some major personnel changes at Turkey Flat. On the 26th February our winemaker, Pete Schell left to pursue other interests. We were fortunate to have Michael Kluczko come in at short notice and help out for the 2005 harvest. Michael...
Winter 2004
Dear Friends,
Just before I left for a sales trip to North America, I assured our winery staff that because January had been so cool there would be no way that vintage would start during the month of February. While we (my eldest son William accompanied me on this latest trip) were freezing...
Summer 2005
Dear Friends,
Welcome to our very first Christmas newsletter.
How time flies, barely had time to put the 2005 reds to barrel and its almost time for another vintage. So far the vines are looking fantastic, and we have had great soaking rain during the winter. The warm and wet...
Winter Newsletter 2008
Dear Friends, We have just completed the 2008 vintage and come through a record-breaking heat wave. Thankfully most of our grapes were safely in the winery before the 16 days over 38 degrees was upon us. Fortunately we grow mainly hardy Rhone varieties that are well suited to this kind of heat and we are confident that the 2008 wines will be well-structured and long-lived. After an association of nearly ten years our national distributor, Wine Source, closed its doors in September 2007. We have since appointed Angove’s as our distribution partner, and look forward to working closely...