Alaya

Alaya, the eldest brother of the winery Atalaya is the ultimate expression of the Alicante Bouschet from Almansa. The elaboration of this wine is in charge of the Spanish-born Australian winemaker, Frank Gonzales. Production limited to 4000 bottles approx. Well-structured and with an original personality, it’s a powerful, silky wine. Excellent wine discribed by Jay Miller as “outstanding and very appealing”. It is pure elegance. This wine is made of grape from vines planted at 1000m altitude approximately, in one of the coldest places of the area, in poor soils. Selected and manually conducted vintage. The winemaking takes place in small tanks. While the malolactic fermentation begins in tanks, it inishes in new French oak barrels where it undergoes a 15-month ageing.

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Brands	Bodegas Atalaya
Wine Region	Almansa

Dry red, 100% Alicante Bouschet

Dense and layered.

15.5% vol.

Earth, underbrush, and mineral notes along with brooding black fruits inform this wine’s inviting bouquet.

D.O. Almansa

Its 15.5% alcohol is in balance with the wine’s strapping personality and helps provide a silky texture and a inish with no hard edges.

15 months in French and American oak barrels.

Ideal to accompany rices with game meat, stewed legumes, mushrooms, poultry and game, casserole dishes, smoked food, blue and cured cheeses, grilled red meats, roast lamb, pork, etc

14ºC - 16ºC

WA: 92 points