2010 Torres Pinot Noir Penedès Mas Borràs

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 87.6 points

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  1/24/2016 - eljocco Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Har nu enligt mig nått en perfekt mognad. Passar utmärkt till den söta frukten i duck ala orange.

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  3/21/2015 - Tire-bouchon Griffin Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Assez inhabituel de rencontrer du Pinot Noir en Espagne. Par contre avec le sérieux de la famille Torres on est en confiance. Nez intense de canelle et cacao. Un beau rouge sec affichant un bel équilibre. Bonne acidité et tanins bien dosés. Des saveurs de fruits rouges et d'épices s'expriment en bouche. Chapeau c'est bon, mais tout de même 35$.

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  1/16/2015 - AV2012 wrote: 91 Points

  Some Pinot Noirs of the World: Excellent when served at a proper temperature. We had two bottles, one at 17-18, one at 23C and you couldn't tell that it is the same wine. Colder one was infinetely more interesting and deep.

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  12/24/2014 - forceberry wrote: 78 Points

  Translucent ruby color, which is rather deep for a Pinot Noir. Ripe dark cherry and pronounced oak aromas of rum, cognac, cola nut and sweet smoke. There is some room for the fruit, but oak is definitely in charge here - hard to believe the wine has seen "only" 40% new oak. In the mouth the wine has mid-bodied mouthfeel with bright acidity, but that's as far as it goes with nice things. Flavor-wise there are some ripe cherry and forest fruit flavors, but overall the palate is dominated by notes of aged cognac, toasty wood and cola. Even though the wine has nice acidic structure, the mouthfeel is smooth and soft due to very smooth, ripe tannins and overwhelming sweet oak. Lots of sweet cognac oak in the finish with lingering flavors of sour cherry lift, bitter wood and some red fruits like raspberry and tart lingonberry.
  
  Really a let-down: I suppose Torres has aimed for a big and unctuous Pinot Noir in the vein of Grand Cru Burgundy, but overall the wine tastes like oak exctract flavored with some Pinot Noir. I have no idea why producers want to drown a variety this delicate under tons of new oak. I have no idea whether this wine had capabilities being a good Pinot Noir or not, because I really can't assess the quality of the wine underneath this much oak. Really anonymous and off-putting expression of this wonderful grape variety.

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  8/1/2014 - FMRsommelier wrote: 91 Points

  Nez de fruits sauvages sur des notes fumé et légèrement viandé. Bouche fraiche avec un fruité gourmand. Une belle amplitude. Très Chambolle-Musigny dans son ensemble. Excellent rapport qualité-prix.

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