Country: Australia Region: South Australia Varietal: Shiraz / Viognier Blend Vintage: 2016 Colour: Red Style: Dry Producer: Yalumba  Description: Eden Valley has been home to Yalumba and it's Shiraz since 1849. Taking the name from Yalumba’s oldest surviving centennial Shiraz vineyard, and grapes from a handful of our most loved vineyards, the Triangle Block pays testament to this history. There is great diversity across the Eden Valley; from vineyards that exhibit quite subtle fragrant aromatics and a much finer, more elegant palate to those that are more dense in style with darker brooding aromatics and palate richness. What links them all together is an underlying finesse and purity, the hallmark of Eden Valley Shiraz. Tasting Note: Select parcels of Shiraz grapes are fermented with a very small percentage of Viognier grapes, whilst some other parcels are fermented with Viognier juice, and the remainder of the Shiraz is fermented on its own. Utilising these different fermentation options has enabled us to blend a soft and stylish wine showing subtle Viognier aromatics combined with the medium weight and finer tannin structure of Shiraz.Triangle Block Shiraz is all dark and brooding fruits. This is a dense wine with briar and dark forest fruits like dark mulberries and blackberries. The high-toned red fruit edge reminds us that this is from the cooler hills of Eden Valley. The palate is all precision and energy with a refined purity of Shiraz. It shows an acid tightness enveloping the mid-palate fleshiness and then the gravelly tannins complete this brooding package. Cellar for 5-7 years. Drink with sage and rosemary crusted lamb with redcurrant sauce and a watercress salad.