Spain

An affordable shiraz from Moldova's Apollo Creek Winery

Grapes for Vinedos Alion are sourced from vineyards next to the winery and from Vega Sicilia's own vineyards at Valbuena. Eighteen hectares of Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) form the actual Alion estate. Inky purple-colored with an alluring perfume of toasty oak, lavender, violets, mineral, blackberry, and blueberry compote. This is followed by a full-bodied, rich, opulent, wine with incipient complexity, and notes of licorice, mocha, and espresso emerging on the palate. The lengthy finish is pure and persistent. Give it 3-5 years in the cellar and drink it through 2025.

This is a red wine mixed with 50% tempranillo and 50% garnacha that is matured in French oak barrels for four months, and then subsequently it continues maturing until today.

The grapes are selected, cut one-by-one, and then placed in boxes, with great care in each step.

Then they are cooled in the chamber to begin the chilled pre-fermentation process, distemmed.Next, the wine ferments and matures with skins during their twenty days in stainless steel tanks. After, the wine matures in barrels, during which time the wine is tamed and prepared for its long life as it appreciates the pleasant tastes of fruit and oak.

This Bordelesa bottle, is a black Author Troncocónica, and it has a natural cork, tin capsule, and a handcrafted and aged tin label of 750 ml.

Robert M Parker, Jr of The Wine Advocate had written this about it.
"It (Casado Morales Rioja) offers up a complex bouquet of earth notes, spice box, leather, and blackberry. Sweet, dense, and elegant on the palate, it has that extra dimension that a superb vintage and extended bottle age can provide."