Vega Sicilia, Alion Vintage:2017 Its not much fun to

Its not much fun to drink today and needs another 2-3 years of bottle age to hopefully open up

ending with sweet

tobacco and brambly flavors

anise and smoked meat building with air

the finesse of structure showed through along with hints of wild violets

Vega Sicilia, Alion Vintage:2017 Its not much fun toThe 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