2015 Vega Sicilia, Alion, Ribera del Duero

Colour: Red

Vintage: 2015

Region: Castilla y Leon

% Alcohol: 15.00

94 JR

16+/20 JR

2015 Vega Sicilia, Alion, Ribera del Duero

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Tasting Notes and Scores

94 JR

Youthful purple. An expansive, highly complex bouquet evokes ripe dark berries, incense, candied flowers and vanilla, and a smoky mineral flourish adds urgency and lift. Sweet and seamless on entry, offering palate-staining blackberry, cherry compote and spicecake flavors and suggestions of mocha and cola. Tightens up steadily on the back half but shows no hard edges. Finishes with excellent, dark-berry-driven tenacity and smooth tannins coming in slowly.

Josh Raynolds

Vinous

2021-02-09

16+/20 JR

Bold, overripe black fruit with a flavour profile that seems a little crude, and not much in the way of subtlety. Perhaps just too young to be fully appreciated just yet. Drinking suggestion from 2020. Tasted in December 2018 by RH.

Jancis Robinson