Bodegas Alto Moncayo Aquilon Garnacha, Campo de Borja, Spain

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A polished red, medium- to full-bodied and expressive, this shows fine harmony overall, integrating sculpted, fine-grained tannins and lively acidity with rich and juicy blackberry and boysenberry fruit, dark chocolate shavings, graphite and eucalyptus. Features lingering hints of vanilla, spice and orange peel on the finish. Drink now through 2030. 366 cases made, 120 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Spain / Campo de Borja Select to Add

A rich and powerful red in a harmonious package, this deftly knits sculpted tannins and amped up blackberry and blueberry coulis, toast, wild sage, vanilla and anise flavors with mouthwatering acidity. Long and minerally on the smoke- and spice-laced finish. Drink now through 2035. 250 cases made, 40 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Spain / Campo de Borja Select to Add

The 2016 Aquilón was creamy, heady and oaky, just a year younger than the 2015 but with similar parameters and profile, heavily marked by the élevage of two years in new oak. The fruit is ripe and the wine full-bodied and with a warm alcoholic finish. Give it some more time in bottle to calm down a little. For fans of heady and oaky reds. 5,546 bottles were filled in August 2018.

This plush red delivers bold flavors of kirsch, blood orange and dark chocolate, with light, firm tannins and juicy acidity. Rich and heady, but with enough acidity to stay lively. Drink now through 2022. 366 cases made, 55 cases imported.??–TM??Region: Spain / Campo de Borja Select to Add

I tasted two vintages of the top of the range side by side, the 2015 Aquilón and the 2016, and I cannot say I found many nuances or differences between the two or even with the rest of the range. The ripe Garnacha produced juice with 16% alcohol that matured in brand-new French and American oak barrels for two years, and during that time the wine seems to have extracted plenty of aromas, flavors and tannins from the new wood to make them overtly oaky and very similar. The 2015 seems to have polished a little the creamy notes that were more evident in the younger 2016, but other than that, I'm sure there's a section of the drinking population that loves this style, but I find it increasingly more and more difficult to enjoy wines like these. That's without mentioning the price! Perhaps I'm wrong and these wines will be fantastic in 50 years' time, but from my experience, if wines are over-oaked, they remain over-oaked forever. 5,350 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2017.