TN: Turkey Flat Sparkling Shiraz (Disg. 4/11/4)

Adair · Post by **Adair** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:38 pm

TN: Turkey Flat Sparkling Shiraz (Disgorged 4th November 2004) Ãƒâ€šÃ¢â‚¬â€œ 12.5%

Purple/red. Heaps of spices, quality oak, chocolate/cherry ripe and dark fruits on the nose. Very, very complex. These favours fully fill the palate with good power and fascinating delicacy and harmony. Finish is full of soft and fine tannins. Absolutely gorgeous. Needs to be drunk chilled as the sweetness becomes a little obvious as it warms - no issues though. Will age very well. I find the 12.5% alcohol level a little hard to believe. The latest admission to the highest Sparkling Shiraz echelon! 18/20, Excellent, 91/100.

Kind regards,
Adair

Red Bigot · Post by **Red Bigot** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:27 pm

Thanks for the TN Adair, looking forward to receiving my 6-pack from Gavin.

Mike Hawkins · Post by **Mike Hawkins** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:50 am

Adair,

I wasn't as enamoured, though it was a perfectly acceptable wine. I thought it lacked intensity and an excitement factor.

Cheers

Mike

707 · Post by **707** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:52 am

Mike, I really enjoyed a bottle recently and share Adair's enthusiasm for this particular wine.

Then that's what wine is all about isn't it, it's an individual gig, no right or wrong despite many people trying to impose that view when they talk about wine. Not meaning you here Mike! We can chat amongst ourselves and agree to differ in the nicest way.

It's brought home to me every week at Blacktongues tastings, seventeen people who manage to pick six and seven wines out of a ten bottle lineup as their best wine, no one is right.

JDSJDS · Post by **JDSJDS** » Sun May 01, 2005 4:28 pm

I tasted this a couple of weeks ago, and thought it was a very good but not great wine (for points people, about 88 points). That's my $0.02...

Adair · Post by **Adair** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:53 am

Great to hear a range of thoughts. I think it is a sparkling Shiraz that will polarise, because many want their sparkling Shiraz a little over the top, and this does not do this. It has good (read: adequate) power, but its intensity and power are not where this wine is hanging its hat. However, complexity, balance and drinkability with food... a winner!

Adair

Mike Hawkins · Post by **Mike Hawkins** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:17 am

Good explanation Adair.

Steve, agree with your sentiments. Wine is a personal thing, and individual tastes need to be respected (though perhaps where there are OBVIOUS winemaking faults, I can handle direct opinions / statements).

Mike