Weston Mallgren

9.0

Hallmark of the variety. — 3 years ago

J Levenson

9.1

Upped my rating to a 9.1 based on quality to price. Give it a 30 min decant. “This wine contains 100% Tempranillo Peludo-a sub variety abandoned by many because if it’s low yield end and it’s one of the most memorable real Riojas we’ve had in quite some time.” - David Lynch, SommSelect — 4 years ago

Sarah Boyle Robert

9.0

Very decent by all standards. — 5 years ago

Brock Janoff

9.5

Excellent rosé — 5 years ago

Rose’s Cafe

9.0

Great value! — 7 years ago

P S

9.2

Leather lavender cherry. Cherry cherry! Very special. Earthy — 7 years ago

Mr sherry

9.0

Great red for an easy drink. — 8 years ago

Anton Minashkin

8.9

Вроде все хорошо, но какой-то дисбаланс наблюдается — 9 years ago

Karl Antle

Partner/Vintner Iconic Wine

8.9

Yummy White Rioja goes well with some roasted pork loin on a Tuesday night — 9 years ago

Ricardo Ballesteros

9.5

Muy buen vino para acompañar con carnes o pasta. No es ácido y no esta tan seco.

Lo tome en el DF en hotel camino real con César Cantú y el equipo de ASERVI. lo recomendaron Octavio y Salvador, los viñedos son de un conocido de ellos en el valle de Guadalupe BCN. — 10 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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B

10

2004 Vega Sicilia Unico. Anniversary date night in SF at Bellota. Let it sit in the glass and decanter for an hour before drinking and it could use a few more hours. After an hour, it opened up a tiny bit. Inky, rich, tannic, but delicious. Dark fruit, asphalt, black pepper, lavender on the front. Balanced, but very young. — 4 years ago

Adam Reinhard

9.5

Tannins stick firmly to ones teeth — 5 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Day 3: Heavy mushrooms framed by sage and cedar, with chamomile and pork fat. There is persimmon, nutmeg, dried grapes, tar, dark raisin bread, tobacco leaf, and poppy seed. This thing was an unwieldy wooden baton on Saturday night; a real leather daddy. It has since opened into a lumberjack in a leather tunic felling a large birch near a meadow of scorched wildflower. He’s sweating, and lightly peppered. Grilled apple, eel skin, dried black currant, dried roses, rawhide, marinated plum, and a tart persistence that is neither graphite, or smoke, but something similar with a dry-rubbed saline-sweetness in the mix. Delicious! Took forever, and I knew it was a bad idea to open so young, but we did it! #callejo #riberadeldueronothing #riberadelduero #NoSpainNoGain #spanishwines #spanishwine #FelixCallejo #bigredwines — 6 years ago

with Courtney

Bill Wilson

8.9

A good smooth Tempranillo — 7 years ago

Paul Coleman

8.9

I was looking for essence of tannin to go with the leg of lamb on Boxing Day, and found it in this righteous elixir. No pussyfooting around here--it's the real stuff. Shot through with coarse-ground black pepper; sturdy as a faithful hiking boot. — 8 years ago

Nick Davis

9.4

Super cool. — 9 years ago

MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.1

Fresh, good acidity, real Rioja — 10 years ago

Anna Vaudin

9.0

First real dinner at Bell Rd — 11 years ago

Jason Gaffner

8.9

Very good for the price — 4 years ago

Chris Haywood

8.9

Possibly overextracted for some but this is an excitingly fierce take on Mencia. Chalky thick tannin structure and the decade or so since bottling has brought out some minty and resinous notes - bit of intrigue. Because some might find it a tad brutal, and lacking in fruit for real aging potential, this dips below the nines. — 4 years ago

David

9.3

Nice smooth rueda, — 5 years ago

Neil Shah

9.6

I mean, come on!! And at the worlds oldest restaurant to boot. — 6 years ago

Alexander Niehenke

9.4

Real nice Espania — 7 years ago

Alexander Vadas

9.4

Great showing — 7 years ago

David Lee

9.8

50th birthday wine and still young. Elegant perfume nose. Velvet, roses, graphite and leather in the mouth. — 8 years ago

Juan Luis García Ruiz

9.5

#alicante #moscatel #castadiva balance and wisdom #winelover #wineporn #maridajenatural — 9 years ago

Viivi Niemi

9.7

Hyvä sekä kala-, että liharuoille ja seurusteluun. — 9 years ago

Alejandro Espinosa Blasco

9.3

Muy buena relación calidad precio — 10 years ago