Vega Sicilia, Alion other_regions roast meat and forest resins

roast meat and forest resins haunt the blackberry and plum fruits

This beautifully chiseled effort is quite backward at present but I very much like the upside development potential

but this is all finesse and class

-- Neal Martin

Vega Sicilia, Alion other_regions roast meat and forest resinsThe 2018 Alin follows the path of the 2016, it is fresh and elegant and from a cooler (more Atlantic) vintage with more rain than the average and a relatively late harvest between September 28th and October 12th. They used 80% new barrels, with up to 10% made of American oak looking to (in their own words) give more sucrosity and sweetness to the wine, as it's a more vertical, tense and elegant expression of Alin. Part of the wine matured in concrete