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Wine Description
The Story
Alion is produced using the Tinto Fino variety. The grapes are harvest by hand in 12-kg boxes and are taken immediately to the winery to the sorting tables. Fermentation takes place in wooden tanks under controlled temperatures until a good polyphenolic structure is obtained which will provide the generous colour and firm structure that makes up part of the personality of this wine; and finally the ageing of between 14 and 20 months, depending...
Vintage 1997
The 1997 Spanish wine harvest stands as a soft, early-ripening, and lighter-styled vintage across Rioja and Ribera del Duero, characterized by an extraordinarily warm early spring that induced rapid budbreak, followed by a cool, damp summer and an erratic autumn that required careful vineyard sorting. Unlike the concentrated, solar vintages surrounding it, 1997 favored freshness, lower tannins, and modest fruit density, leading top bodegas—inc...