A. R.

9.1

Still way too young. Amazing upside, highly extracted. I generally dislike this big style, but man is this well made. Dark fruit and pepper in the nose, lots of unresolved tannins, minerals and dark fruit in the mouth. Long finish. — 4 months ago

Jan de Weerd

9.2

Wow. This wine evolved from a bit off-balanced spicy austere wine to a deep complex earthy wine with layers of dark fruit. This is why I love wine. There is a story underneath the surface. — 6 months ago

with Tammy

Ian Hamel

9.2

2022/8. I do think the great Etna reds are Italy’s Burgundies (if Burgundy was grown on a volcano in the Mediterranean)...perfume, flowery red fruit but with smokier, darker elements and that somehow autumnal thing that seems to run in many classic Italian reds (Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, Nerello) — 4 years ago

James Carter

8.9

First sips were disappointing in the brevity of the hit on the palate. Gave it an hour and it lengthened beautifully. This wine has a ton of fruit (crushed sweet red berries), velvety tannins, and great structure. I would be fascinated to see what 10+ years does to it — 4 years ago

Brian S

9.0

This was an amazing wine, great nose of white flowers and citrus with some tropical notes. I think also around 30 a bottle. — 5 years ago

with Ellie

Chris Grimm

9.0

Wonderful wine. From what I remember, there was an underlying savory/mineral note to it which was next level. — 5 years ago

SChardonnay

10

Soooooo good. Best merlot evah — 6 years ago

Alden Ridley

9.2

Set out to try a Sicilian wine for the first time (that I can remember) at my favorite restaurant in NYC and it did not dissapoint! Notes of cherry, red fruit, and smoke. Surprisingly mineral finish for a red, incredibly dry! Fantastic! — 4 months ago

Christopher J. Simovich

9.8

This was perfect right from the bottle to a 20 minute decant. I felt like an angel baby swatted in cotton candy after drinking this one. Paired with meats and dishes at Bazaar in Washington DC. — 7 months ago

AEL

9.0

It's austere, but that's why you bought a taurasi. Dried flowers, boysenberries, raspberries. Almost like an amarone. Well made; I think average score a tad low. Better than the 2016. — 3 years ago

Ceccherini Cristiano

9.1

Simple, citrussy with mineral vein
It does the job perfectly and i am curious to see what happens in a few months
It's long, satisfying and disappears super quick — 4 years ago

Adam Gäfvert

8.9

Planetas fiano-projekt från sydvästra Sicilien. Gulfruktig och mer exotisk än sina motsvarigheter i Kampanien. Torkade blommor, söta kryddor och allmänt lite rivig trots den något oljiga texturen. — 5 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I do, for some reason. Anyway, this is excellent. Very fragrant (with air), showing intense sweet hay, meadow flowers, ginger ale notes, crisp pear, and crushed stone. Intense in the mouth too, but with a weightlessness that is very appealing. Long, minerally, bone dry finish with an almost Muscadet-like quinine thing at the end. — 5 years ago

Stas Medvedev

9.2

🏅 Rating 92+/100 (4,25⭐)

Tobacco leaf. Full of red and some black berries. Tanins are ripe, granular. Oaky. Midpalate fruit.

Powerful 100% Tempranilio. Alion is owned by Alvarez family. Just 12km away from Vega Sicilia, which belongs to the same family.

Top quality wine that can compete with Valbuena 5°, but made in a slightly more modern style.

That's not the first time I open this vintage of Alion. Now it feels more tight. Needs more bottle aging. I strongly recommend some aeration before serving this wine. Maybe leave it for a good couple of hours in wide decanter.

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Ericsson

9.7

Mariano García’s final vintage at Vega Sicilia. What a great bottle.

The nose opens with damp forest floor, leather, cedar, and quiet red fruit; subtle, reserved, endlessly composed.

On the palate, it’s silk laid gently over structure: dried cherry, tobacco, graphite, and savory earth carried by fine-grain tannins and measured acidity.

The finish reads like the final lines of a great novel: inevitable, complete, and exactly as it should be. And already, there’s a touch of nostalgia, because I don’t know when I’ll encounter something like this again. — 6 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

Vintage 2019 | solid, although I have a faint idea it has had better times. — 3 years ago

Ian Hamel

9.1

2022/7/13-14. A mix of blue and red fruits, sun-blasted rock, toasted spice and wild herbs - a stimulating mix of the mountain and Mediterranean, in perhaps more extreme relief than in other Etna reds that I tend to drink. — 4 years ago

Adam Beasley

9.1

This is all delicate, barely ripe fruit (apple, pear, nectarine, tangerine) with medium+ body and acid, and a finish that just won’t stop. Very pretty - I would have called it Chenin Blanc if I had tasted it blind. — 5 years ago

Marc Ouellette

9.8

Delicious!! Need I say more… — 5 years ago

Chris McClellan

9.1

Jammy red/black fruit, smoky, savory, leather and meaty...tannins were not nearly high as I anticipated..delicious.... — 6 years ago