Numanthia, Termes

Numanthia, TermesRuby red. Spicy, oak inflected aromas of cherry, licorice and roasted coffee. Medium bodied and firm, the cherry flavor braced by fresh acids and supported by gentle, dusty tannins. Finishes youthfully taut and with impressive persistence, a note of tobacco sneaking in on the back. Impressive if still very young. Josh Raynolds

This wine offers its best assets upfront and leaves less to chew on at the backend

It's fully mature but by no means on its last legs

A firmly reduced nose renders it impossible to evaluate

with the citrus and floral notes holding the fruit at bay for now

expressive

and in the end the Breuer Riesling harvest was not entirely finished until almost a month later

with youthful tannins gracing the finish

Cabernet-dominant nose with cassis

backward and overtly austere finish that also delivers huge length

soon giving way to very pretty scents of tilled soil

that seems a little smudged initially but gains clarity with aeration

The 2018 Alión follows the path of the 2016