Yacca Block Shiraz '20
Two Hands Wines
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Yacca Block sits at the top of Menglers Hill and is a prime example of the role sub-regionality plays in serious winemaking, with this vineyard only a 25 minutes drive from the Western Ranges of the Barossa Valley.
The soil here is a mix of both quartz and ironstone and the vineyard’s high altitude allows for slow ripening that leads to a very soft and elegant Shiraz. Grower Joel Mattschoss has been a great supporter and friend of Two Hands, recently starting a business partnership with a new, exciting project titled ‘Love Over Gold’.
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- Wine Country
- Australia
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- Grape varieties wine
- Shiraz
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- Wine-food combination
- The Yacca Block Shiraz is an exclusive wine to be served with fine dining cuisine like game and venison or duck breast with red jus. The wine will also be an amazing ending to a dinner for those who still want to enjoy a big bold wine.
About this wine
Description & facts
- Producer
- Two Hands Wines
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Wine Region
- Eden Valley
- Vintage
- 2020
- Grape varieties wine
- Shiraz
- Tasting note
- Yacca Block has a very tight bouquet of cedar, dark berry liqueur, polished timber, smoke, glazed plums, cassis, baking spice backed by violets and cigar box. The palate explodes from the get go, this coils up and bursts forth with flavors that smash every corner of your mouth. After time in the decanter, this wine begins to settle down, slowly showing more nuance, grace and manners. Deep blackcurrant and rich powerful fruits expand to show you the structure behind the wine, a lovely layering emerges and the tannins give you an amazing length to a very balanced finish.
- Wine-food combination
- The Yacca Block Shiraz is an exclusive wine to be served with fine dining cuisine like game and venison or duck breast with red jus. The wine will also be an amazing ending to a dinner for those who still want to enjoy a big bold wine.
- Vinification
- Crushed & de-stemmed, fermented in 5 tonne stainless. Time on skins 10 days, pumped over 2-3 times a day. Free run and pressings were combined into tank then racked off gross lees into oak where malolactic fermentation occurred. Bottled with minimal fining and without filtration. The wine aged 18 months of which 20% new French oak, puncheons.
- Closure
- Cork
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 °C
- Ageing potential
- The wine has great potential to mature for a few years.
