Fondillon Luis XIV - Alicante 50 Year Old NV (500ml)
Price: $399.99
| Producer | Fondillon Luis XIV |
| Country | Spain |
| Varietal | Mourvedre |
| Size | 500ml |
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Wine Advocate: 95 Points
- 100% Monastrell (Mourvedre)
- From Alicante Spain
- CASK NAME: Saboners.
- AGEING: Aged more than 50 years (single barrel).
- TYPE OF WOOD: 19th-century American oak barrels
- CASK SIZE: 70 “cántaros valencianos” (805 litros).
"The NV Fondillón Luis XIV has the subtitle Edad Superior a 50 años (over 50 years old), and it's a dark mahogany, bottled from a single barrel that has the specific profile of a very old wine greatly concentrated by age, which tends to make it similar to other very old and concentrated wines, be it a Mediterranean rancio or a very old Moscatel. It has notes of bitter chocolate, coconut and iodine, carob beans (algarroba) and some bittersweet sensations. It's dense and concentrated, and the palate is pungent, with very intense flavors and a bitter twist in the finish. This has 16.3% alcohol, 6.45 grams of acidity and 34 grams of sugar, but it comes through as very dry. The wine is long and extraordinary, but it just doesn't have any Fondillón character after decades of concentration by evaporation. The price is ludicrous. Only 435 half-liter bottles were filled in December 2019.
Rated 95/100 The Wine Advocate
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