Wine Details
| Bottle Size | 750ml |
| Vintage | 2012 |
| Varietal | Tempranillo |
| Producer | Vega Sicilia |
| Region | Ribera Del Duero |
| Appellation | |
| Color | Red |
| Country | Spain |
| Featured | No |
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Vega Sicilia has founded its success on its meticulous wine-producing practices: In the vineyard it applies low yields, aided by green harvesting…
| Bottle Size | 750ml |
| Vintage | 2012 |
| Varietal | Tempranillo |
| Producer | Vega Sicilia |
| Region | Ribera Del Duero |
| Appellation | |
| Color | Red |
| Country | Spain |
| Featured | No |
| Weight | 3.5000 lbs |
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Vega Sicilia has founded its success on its meticulous wine-producing practices: In the vineyard it applies low yields, aided by green harvesting, and a painstaking grape selection. In the winery, wines undertake a complicated series of rackings from huge barrels to new and old oak. Despite the very prolonged barrel ageing, e.g. the 1970 Unico has over 16 years, the wine flavours are never dried out or overly oaky when mature, which is compelling evidence of the superb quality of its raw materials.
2012 has to be one of the best recent vintages of Alión. This 2012 Alión is pure Tempranillo from vineyards averaging 25 to 30 years of age, harvested at the end of September and matured for 14 months in new French oak barrels. The nose is much more elegant than the Pintia from Toro (I tasted them together), still very fresh and primary but with a special brightness of fruit, shiny cherries, raspberries, something effervescent, open and somehow exuberant. The palate is quite round, much more polished, with some notes of dark chocolate, some subtle volatility, elegant, fresh and long. It has the balance and stuffing to develop nicely in bottle. Superb balance, Ribera character, clean, modern classic. 280,000 bottles were produced.
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