1996 Veritas "Heysen Vineyard" Shiraz Barossa Valley rounded and textured on the

rounded and textured on the palate

Superconcentrated and opulent

and are bottled unfined and unfiltered

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This wine has so much complexity and subtlety it would have been a shame to drink it out of substandard glassware

1996 Veritas "Heysen Vineyard" Shiraz Barossa Valley rounded and textured on theA strong argument can be made that that the two Shiraz cuvees ("Hanish" and "Heysen") are the top wines from Veritas. This wine, made from 30 year old vines that average 2. 5 tons of fruit per acre, tips the scales at a whopping 15. 1% alcohol, although you would never know it when tasting this super concentrated wine. It is a killer Shiraz, with an opaque purple color, peppery, tar, sweet, layered, jammy blackberry fruit, hints of subtle new oak, and