Alicante is above all known for being a low cost, great value wine region. Most wines produced are young wines, made up of mersegurea for the whites, garnacha for the rose wines, and monastrell for red wines. But there is also space for top quality wines and wineries like Enrique Mendoza, El Seque (from Artadi in Rioja) or Telmo Rodriguez, who has also ventured in the region, have taken wines from Alicante to a different level.
Alicante is also well-known for its muscatel wines, with its best-known example in the wines of the winery Gutierrez de la Vega. Casta Diva, one of the wines from this winery, was served at the banquet of Spain´s King Felive VI.
Last but for sure not least we find fondillon. This is a unique dessert wine that can be made either sweet or in rancio styles.It is made with monastrell and it gets fortified to sixteen percent of alcohol. Fondillon needs at least eight years of oak aging to be considered as such.
At its best, fondillon yields the best nutty character we can find in a tawny port, but also the delicate sweetness of fine cakes. Fondillon is a wine to taste at least once!
One of the best things about the wine region of Alicante is that it is located very close to the sea and offers a good number of quality beaches.