By visiting this page, we hope that you are either enjoying our Yacca Block Shiraz or would like to find out more about it.
Perched high up on the hillside of the Eden Valley, this beautifully positioned vineyard is surrounded by ancient Yaccas. 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.
Yacca Block sits at the top of Menglers Hill in Eden Valley and is a prime example of the role sub-regionality plays in serious winemaking with this vineyard only a short drive from the Western Ranges of Barossa Valley where the Two Hands Cellar Door is located.
I love the fact that you can drive 12 minutes due east of the winery and it feels like you have driven a world away. Surrounded by rolling hills, gum trees, pastures and 500 year old Yacca plants. This site has a special feeling, it is incredibly peaceful and serene. From a winemaker’s point of view the soil composition is so interesting, ancient and full of decomposing rock, and then of course we come to the wine. Not as bold or as rich as the Western Ranges yet more detailed, finer and more aromatic.