THE wine world is no stranger to well-heeled doctors, especially in later life, indulging their passion for wine by purchasing a vineyard, winery or both, and then probably doing their best to drink the profits.
Justin Ardill is not one of them. Yes, he is a doctor, a high-pressure cardiologist who specialises in treating people with heart attacks, and somehow he manages to run parallel careers. But that’s where any stereotypical image ends, for he is equally a very much hands-on winemaker and grape grower who, with his wife Julie, bought a modest, if rather distinguished, 5ha vineyard at Leasingham in the Clare Valley in 1993.
Educated by Jesuits in Adelaide and with a wine-loving father it naturally led to
