Directors' Cut 2003 - a 'world class wine'

'World Class Wines that don't cost the Earth'

Directors' Cut 2003:  Talking of a sense of place and a passionate winemaker - here's another beauty. 

This comes from the Wirrega Vineyard in Australia's Limestone Coast, a great swathe of land covering the bottom end of South Australia.  Wirrega is one magic patch of land in the middle of no-where (I know how to get there.  You turn right at a place called Keith, drive for about 50 km into the bush, turn left, drive even further into the bush, turn left again - haven't seen a soul for an hour - it really is like that).  But the fruit for these wines is superb.  Add a brilliant young winemaker, Ben Glaetzer, and you get one of the densest, yet most magical shirazes in all Australia - a fabulous mix of black plum and blackcurrant, rolled in black chocolate, stirred in with beef tea and liquorice and rubbed with the zest of a super ripe lime and the oil is dripping from the leaves of a eucalyptus tree. 

Irresistible texture.  Irresistible flavour.  Irresistible sense of place.

Also in this book:
Heartland Shiraz listed as one of the Top Value wines
Glaetzer and Heartland Wines listed as one of the Best Producers of Shiraz
Glaetzer listed as one of the Best Producers in the Barossa Valley