Conrad Green

9.6

Gorgeous stuff. I really enchanting nose with great fruit that is fully resolved. The telltale soft oak presence warms and underpins this delicious wine. Complex and perfectly poised… This is great stuff, and a good time to be drinking it. — 4 days ago

with BOT, Matt and 1 other

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. — 10 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. — 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 Grimm

9.0

Wonderful wine. From what I remember, there was an underlying savory/mineral note to it which was next level. — 6 years ago

Anthony De Blasi

9.5

I adore Nerello Mascalese but I never had the Guardiola from Passopisciaro. What a beauty!!! — a month ago

George Chen

9.4

Wow! Chardonnay from Mt Edna! Jewel-like, pale yellow but dry and minerally like what we like at Coche Corton Charlie…and these prices! I want it!
Good morning — 2 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. — 10 months ago

with Tammy

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 — 5 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

Matt Perlman

9.0

From mag. Had not yet tried this wine with this much age before and didn’t know what to expect but it was really quite nice. Develops kind of like a gamay or Pinot. Black cherry and raspberry still there but definitely leaner and more acid-driven and savory at this point. Dried flowers, stewed tomato, dried herbs, mushroom, maybe a little sweet tobacco and mesquite. Overall I think I would still drink this young for the exuberant lip smacking red fruit but this was interesting — 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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Ceccherini Cristiano

9.0

Not complex, but very straightforward
Fresh and pleasant
For 15 euros on the shelves, i was pleased
Very mineral dna — 2 months ago

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. — 8 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 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

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