This evening was another visit to Australia. We are drinking a 2005 Heartland Shiraz, $14 at the Wine House. Heartland makes another wine we often drink (but haven't blogged about) called Stickleback - it's a tasty wine for about $10. Someday, I'll blog on that one. Anyhow, Heartland is made by Ben Glaetzer, a well known wine producer in Australia who makes wines like the well respected AMON-Ra. This wine comes from the Limestone coast and Langhorne Creek in South Australia and is 100% Shiraz.
Well, it's another solid wine, somewhere in taste to last night's Cape Barren GSM blend and the prior d'Arenberg d'Arry's Original. The nose is nice; dark fruit and oak (I feel like I've said oak a lot lately - hopefully I'm not getting too stuck on that.) Very dark color, taste is fairly dry, lush and bright fruit (which contrasted the nose) with some spice on the finish. A smooth, well balanced wine - medium tannins. Often these types of wines are so fruit forward that I mistake it for sugar, which I'm not crazy about, but this one ain't bad.
And I just checked, this got a 90 from Steven Tanzer at IWC, in case you care.
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