This vintage is not yet on the market (as of July 2007). 100% Garnacha (Grenache). The winemaker is Chris Ringland, of Australia. Typical price might be £50-60 but actually finding a bottle is more likely to be the issue.
Aquilon is not an ordinary wine. It has a fabulous, huge nose of great concentration of fresh brambly forest fruit, old leather, pepper and cloves. There is a strong dominance of blackberry - in fact it's like dipping your fingers in the richest blackberry jam and sucking them, but you get it delivered to your palate in a structure whose balance between acidity and tannin is near perfect and seamlessly beautiful. Aquilon has sensational length, and despite its youth, it's rounded, velvety, expansive and expressive. It's not one for the squeamish - this is a true monster.
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