2011 Bodega Numanthia Toro Numanthia

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  12/24/2023 - Oliverl1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Had this wine again after about two years. It is a very big and bold big wine (15%), but after about 10 hours in the decanter it was just perfect. What a lovely long finish. Wonderful stuff and excellent value for c. $60. I suspect many people don’t give it enough air that it needs.

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  9/17/2023 - zippythep wrote: 93 Points

  The 2011 was decanted for two hours and could have used another hour. Drank at pop up dinner upstate by Junoon Chef Akshay Bhardwaj (9 time Michelin star winning restaurant from NYC). Held up surprisingly well to the strong flavors/spices in the meal. Typically drink white Bordeaux and burgundies at Junoon (which we also enjoyd) but this was clearly the WOTN.

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  3/17/2023 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Such a pleasure to return to this vintage after 4 years. Made from Tempranillo from old vines of up to 100 years old, aged in new FR oak for 18 months. Deep opaque garnet colour. Intense and persistent aroma of dried plums, figs and cherries, leather, sweet tobacco, cocoa, toasted oak. Full body, concentrated and complex layered flavours of cassis, chocolate, dried and ripe fruits, spice and smoky hints. Well integrated acidity and still developing firm and finely knit tannins.

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  2/27/2023 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  100% Tinta de Toro from over 100 ungrafted, non-irrigated parcels aged between 50 and 100 yo located in the villages of Valdefinjas, Toro and El Pego. The fully destemmed fruit is cold-soaked with the skins for more than a week followed by fermentation and maceration over a period of 21 days. Aged in new French oak barrels for 18 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered in July 2013. 15% alcohol.
  
  Deep, luminous and very slightly translucent black cherry color. The powerful, dark-toned nose shows intense, sweet-toned aromas of cherry marmalade and ripe blackberries, some licorice tones, a little bit of toasty mocha oak, light dried-fruit notes of prunes and dried figs and a woody hint of savory oak spice. The wine feels robust, hot and extracted on the palate with a very full body and intense flavors of raisiny dark fruits and meaty umami, some woody notes of savory oak, a little bit of ripe dark plums, light earthy notes, a hint of balsamic VA and a touch of roasted game. Despite the massive body and obvious ripeness of the fruit, the wine still manages to show surprisingly nice sense of structure, thanks to the quite high acidity and moderately grippy tannins. The finish is rich, powerful and quite grippy with a long, juicy aftertaste of raisiny dark fruits and sweet dark plums, some meaty tones, a little bit of peppery spice, light toasty oak tones, a hint of blackberry jam and a touch of balsamic VA.
  
  A huge and noticeably ripe yet still surprisingly enjoyable blockbuster wine. Stylistically this wine is not in my wheelhouse, not even near it, but if I wanted have a huge wine with some tertiary complexity and tons of fruit, this is definitely something I could easily go with. I was surprised how evolved the wine was - I thought these Numanthia wines aged at a very slow pace, but this wine seemed very close to its plateau of maturity now, at the age of 12,5 years. Even if the wine would keep just fine for years more, I really didn't get a feeling there would be much further development here - at least not in a direction that would benefit the wine. Drink now or within the next handful of years.

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  2/13/2023 - Barry Notes Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Pw/1 hr. glass time. Clear, some light sediment. dark purple/ruby. This drank very nicely. Med to full body, very well integrated/balanced. Typical red and black fruit profile. Long finish with some tannins still present. Drink now or in 5 years. Nothing off. $53

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