Vega Sicilia Alion (750ml)

Alión comes from carefully selected terroirs located in the very best areas of the Ribera del Duero DO region. The 2018 vintage reflects weather influenced by the Atlantic, with higher than average precipitation, cool temperatures, and a relatively late harvest.  

Produced using the Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) variety. The grapes are harvest by hand in 12-kg boxes and are taken immediately to the winery to the sorting tables. Fermentation takes place in wooden tanks under controlled temperatures until a good polyphenolic structure is obtained which will provide the generous colour and firm structure that makes up part of the personality of this wine.  Winemakers increased the effect of new oak on this vintage by up to 80 %, with American oak representing 10%, targeting a more generous wine; it is aged between 12 and 14 months in new, mainly French oak Bordeaux barrels.  These barrels, from the leading Bordeaux firms, are a significant investment in oak as, harvest after harvest, all the wine that is produced in Alión will be aged in new barrels that, after the wine is decanted to be bottle, will not be used again by the winery.  Once the wine is removed from the barrels, it ages for about 15 months in bottle.