1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento Selección
Community Tasting Note
COWineLover wrote:
Saturday, January 15, 2022 - From a bottle first opened September 22, 2021. This was the final wine of 13 poured at a wine tasting charity fundraiser. Aromatically remains very fragrant with prounounced notes of balsamic, fig, soy, and a massive blast of toffee. On the palate, this remains concentrated, but the time in bottle has softened this where the balsmic notes sprint out before handing the batan over for figs and roasted nuts, and toffee that reminded me of Christmas just a few weeks earlier. The toffee was universally picked up by tasters with no experience with this wine. A couple of tasters speculated the wine was an aged Port. On the finish, this was all about finesse - gliding along with an aftertaste of all the flavors but nothing predominant.
I found the elegance and subtlety of the bottle tonight worthy of a +2 bump from my September score of 94.
Oh, and I still have a little left before completing the epitaph on this bottle!
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Comment posted by MrSkimo:
5/20/2022 6:59:00 PM - Just curious what you did to store it while you had it open for a few months. We’re you using a blanket system like Private Preserve?
Comment posted by COWineLover:
5/20/2022 7:48:00 PM - Thank you for your question. The only preparation was storing the bottle back in my cellar on it's side. No special prep conditions. Crazy I know but it was amazing how it improved.