Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Sunday, April 16, 2017 - 100% Tinta de Toro. Cold-soaked for up to 5 days before the fermentation in oak vats, aged in French (70%), American (25%) and Hungarian (5%) oak barrels for 12 months. Bottle #63074 out of 218178 bottles produced. Alc. 15% ABV.

Quite opaque, slightly developed blackcurrant color. Upon opening the nose was rather restrained, muted even, but then it started to exhibit some developed notes of earth, meaty character, some smoke, a little wizened dark forest fruits and hints of woody oak. On the palate the wine is ripe, full-bodied and meaty with opulent flavors of plums, prunes, sweet oak spice, some vanilla, a little bit of wizened dark berries and hints of leather. The structure is still rather tightly-knit with prominent yet ripe tannins and moderately high acidity. Although dry, the flavors are rather sweet with their obvious ripeness and slightly dried fruit character. The finish is a bit drier than the sweetly-fruited midpalate with some noticeable tannic astringency with very juicy flavors of dark sunny fruit, some sour plums, a little dusty earth, a hint of aromatic oak and a touch of prunes. Alcohol (15%) makes the wine finish on a rather warm note.

A good, big and impressive Tempranillo, but despite its impressive size, the wine is, however, pretty predictable modern Toro with lots of extraction and quite noticeable oak but rather little of real depth. The oak seemed to have started to integrate with the fruit, so the wine seemed more developed and less oak-heavy what I can imagine it must've been in its youth, but I still would've preferred even less noticeable oak. Doesn't necessarily require any more cellaring, but probably will keep - possibly even develop - over 5-7 more years. Felt a bit overpriced at 39,90€.

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