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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento L. Opimio

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6/17/2020 - bakhawk wrote: 100 points

Just fabolous :-)

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6/21/2020 - Lipsman Likes this wine: 100 points

Same as every previous bottle — absolutely seductive. Incredibly sexy wine of the utmost depth and complexity. Beguiling. A world of sensuality in a glass. Do not decant. Allow it to reveal itself in the glass.

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9/10/2018 - Lipsman Likes this wine: 100 points

From a bottle open several months. A unique and spectacularly complex wine with a peacock’s tail finish that seems endless. The aroma too is a prism of color and nuance that is beguiling without even taking a sip. This is a heavy dessert wine, without the alcohol found in many ports. Worth extra effort to obtain a bottle and share with friends. Always a head turner. I give it 110 points.

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1955 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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10/1/2017 - danielbleier Likes this wine: 100 points

The scheduled finish of our SATT dinner (there was one more surprise wine), this is another that should be in a category of its own. Viscosity of motor oil, flavors of candied fruits, chocolate covered raisin, coffee and honey - this should be enjoyed very slowly, savoring the remarkable quality

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11/13/2019 - bubnos Likes this wine: 100 points

Of all wines with more than 50 reviews on CellarTracker, this wine has the highest average score, edging out the 2001 Chateau d'Yquem (a wine with four separate perfect scores by top critics) by 0.1 points as of this note, meaning this wine could claim, with a straight face, to be "the best wine in the world". Needless to say, I had extremely high expectations when I finally pulled this bottle out of my cellar and spent approximately twenty minutes carefully chipping off the wax seal.

Poured into a glass, this "wine" resembles nothing so much as a test tube full of pure bromine, staining the glass a rich brown color as it swirls and drains from the walls at a glacial rate. The nose is vastly more complex than any other PX sherry I've tasted- there's fig and raisin and honey and all other the usual suspects, but there's also rosemary, balsam fir, soy sauce, yuzu, all notes I've never even detected in any other wine.

The first sip is- I won't say "intoxicating" because I can't even detect any alcohol despite the 17% ABV on the label- but it's an incredibly elegant and refined mix of savory umami, burnt caramel, 91% cacao chocolate, a well-hidden oxidative nuttiness (even if you don't like sherry this works so well) and polished acidity balancing out the treacly sweetness. It doesn't really ever "finish", per se, you just keep tasting different aspects as time goes by- 15 seconds in it's honey, then it transitions after 30 seconds to a peppery, bacon-like Syrah note, and then it's bitter herbs and menthol after a minute, then back to figs after 1'30- it's truly astounding how it continued to evolve. I splashed a few drops of water into the glass when I finished and swirled it around- it's very viscous so a lot of wine gets stuck on the sides of the glass- and even just the mostly-water wash was better than some moscatels I've had.

Expectations absolutely blown out of the park. Full 100 points because I can't give more. You owe it to yourself to buy a bottle of this and pop it open ASAP- it's the best deal in wine at twice or three times the current price. I would buy this before Yquem, I'd buy this before a Tokaji Essencia, I'd buy this before a first-growth Bordeaux or a cult Cali cab. What's more, since it's heavily oxidized and mostly sugar already, you don't need to worry about futzing around with a Coravin or opening it at a huge party so everyone drinks it- it's completely shelf stable, just cork it and put it back in its wooden box and it will last for months at a time, if not years, with no perceptible deterioration.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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4/27/2018 - Lipsman wrote: 100 points

So remarkable I give it 110 points. I can’t begin to enumerate the flavors except to say it is a dark peacock’s tail that shimmers and unfurls for minutes. I pity those who give it less than 100 points. What will they ever taste in their lives that is better? Nothing. They are doomed, never to recognize perfection. If you haven’t tried a glass, you must. Nothing more satisfying, saturated, or complex has ever before been bottled.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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12/5/2017 - Lipsman wrote: 100 points

This is indescribably delicious. The time this spends on the palate and the peacock tail of shimmering flavors that appear and evolve are beyond compare. There is nothing like this wine, if you can even call it a wine.

Deeply saturated aromas of cherry, chocolate, soy. Amazing nose. Thick and viscous. Delicious elixir of mocha, black cherries, medicinal herbs, anise, black plums, earthy elements, with incredible length lasting two minutes. Yum!

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1961 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX

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12/16/2017 - Doc90 Likes this wine: 100 points

Absolute black, with intense betadine edges. Wow. Nose of egg shells, oil paints, cinnamon bark, Caribbean rum, nutmeg, raging fire. Viscous, chocolate-cinnamon palate with spicy pepper nuances. Raging and mesmerizing. The alcohol (17%) is actually an asset in this wine, which feels weird to say. And the acidity is remarkable for PX. Paired with sea salt brownies.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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5/17/2020 - worldwidewine Likes this wine: 100 points

If you want to know what is a 100/100 wine just taste this bottle .With only one drop you smell the Nirvana.Ali Baba's cave of aromas.
It's a monument. The 7 wonders of the world have forgotten this bottle.
I want to smell this wine for my last breath...

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8/22/2017 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 100 points

Monthly Men's Wine Dinner (Carmine's Bellevue): I don't know how to score dessert wines but this was better than d'Yquem so I'm going with Parker and giving it 100. It was crazy good, like drinking Christmas, perfectly balanced. Pair with fruitcake. Thanks Steve!

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12/31/2017 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 100 points

So good I just giggle every sip. This is a remarkable dessert wine and I'm grateful to Steve for sharing it not once but twice with me. Ethereal integrated sweetness, lightness, Christmas spices, and magic.

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6/7/2017 - KingSlacker999 wrote: 100 points

One of the craziest and most amazing things ever. Nose is complex and has Christmas pudding, toffee, fruitcake, etc, etc. Viscous, sweet (unctuous but not cloying). Mid-palate has some acidity and a spine of salinity that surprises and impresses. Length, length, length, at least 3 minutes. Utterly delicious.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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10/26/2021 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 100 points

3 Terrific Rose Champagnes, 5 Great Cabernets, and a Fabulous Dessert Wine. (Yan's China Bistro, Walnut Creek, Ca.): Our host provided this dessert wine and it had a small test tube of wine for you to sample and determine if it is ready to drink before you open the bottle. Upon opening the bottle, the wine exploded with flavors and bouquet, lots of raisins, plum, caramel, molasses, and Asian spices on both the nose and palate, the taste was like a complex nectar, rich, mouth filling, mouth coating, and mouth watering, the long, long, long finish led to a wonderful, exotic aftertaste that demanded you pour another glass. Everyone that tasted raved about this dessert wine. 3 photos uploaded, and one shows the plastic wrapped sample test tube of this nectar.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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4/10/2020 - streethawk wrote: 100 points

Absolutely beguiling. Bouquet of figs, honey, spices. Incredibly dark, thick and viscous, like used motor oil. Luscious on the palate with an unbelievably complex finish that lasts forever. When I taste this, I ask myself: How is this even wine? If you can try this, please do yourself a favour and do it! You won’t be disappointed!

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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10/21/2020 - Alfaro wrote: 100 points

Phenomenal!!! A Joy to Experience!

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1931 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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11/4/2018 - MdeCarabas Likes this wine: 100 points

Very very complex
Kaleidoscopic flavors
We can smell the incense and perfumed old wood
Flavors include cherry liquor, dates, prunes, figs, toffee, caramel
Just amazing

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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11/10/2016 - Kerryt wrote: 100 points

Very concentrated, very powerful, very complex. Perhaps the most complex, most unique wine I have ever had. I served it at the symphony wine-tasting fundraiser a couple of years ago, and it was a big hit, even more popular than the 100-point (RP) Bordeaux I also served.

Wine Advocate says "full of umami, with sweet cinnamon, Christmas cake, camphor, petrol, lemongrass, Belgian chocolate and butter. Incredibly complex and rich, sweet, balanced and smooth in the palate, it is both very sweet and somehow salty, and with time it develops a black olive note." I'm not sure I'm sophisticated enough to identify all those flavors, but it certainly is complex enough that I'll take the expert's word.

We drank this young (it was only bottled in 2011, which helps explain the super-concentrated part), but I expect it will get better for the next 30-40 years.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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4/10/2016 - bacchuszuo Likes this wine: 100 points

First of all, there ARE some negatives with this bottle....the 100pt score on the wood case and labels are tacky, the wax capsule is a nightmare to open, they claim this is limited to 876 bottles while they actually release in small badges....all those aside, this wine gave the WOW factor above its pure perfection so even with those nasty distractions, 100 is the only score possible.

Medicinal herby nose at first, kaleidoscopic palate of balsamic, black olive, anise, cassis, black chocolate, raisin, prune, cinnamon, licorice, tarragon, endless spectrum of herbs and spices with heavenly sweetness. The wine opens up with air and continue to evolve. Very vibrant acidity cut thru the rich sweetness to make it weighless on palate yet ripples thru on and on for a 20+min finish. The balance from beginning to end is impeccable. The taste doesn't cloy yet lingers for eternity, transcends sensory perception and linguistic comprehension into an spiritual experience. When served at the end of a drunk-fest, this wine is going to sober you up and recalibrate all senses, even make the mediocre fellow wines beside it taste better than before! A wine that deserves legendary status in the world of vinos.

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10/15/2015 - ADiamond Likes this wine: 100 points

A beautiful selection by the owner of Etapas in Barcelona. What a way to end a perfect meal, with perfection.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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7/17/2022 - sh6k Likes this wine: 100 points

Probably the last bottle I’ll have of this and I’m sure going to miss it. Has everything going on all at once — fresh and fruity, butterscotch and soy sauce, and everything in between. What more could you ask for? I couldn’t imagine how it could be better, so I’ve gotta go all the way on the score.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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12/23/2014 - Torben Hald wrote: 100 points

The best PX, fantastic smell and taste

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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7/13/2023 - Jamesdodds Likes this wine: 100 points

Lives up to its 100 point billing. Wow. Previous tasting notes hit the mark. If you lucky enough to taste history like this don’t turn it down. Well worth it

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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2/2/2023 - hectic Likes this wine: 100 points

Do not drink this if you are not wearing seatbelts. Every positive adjective you have ever seen used to rate a fabulous wine applies here.
Warning. One bottle serves 12 people. Recorked, it was still wonderful three days later.

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1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección

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10/13/2017 - WStucker wrote: 100 points

Wine of the year!!

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1965 Bodegas Toro Albala Don P.X. Reserva Especial

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3/26/2021 - VoteferPedro Likes this wine: 100 points

Is it perfection? Yes
EYE - deep crankcase oil, thick legs
NOSE - nuts and an abundance of dried fruits and herby fennel hint
TONGUE - starts sweet and fans out to touch on the notes noted above with a long and lingering finish that is augmented further on exhalation and goes on and on

fantastic to have shared it with my friends
very intense. A small serving goes a long way

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