2003 Bodega Numanthia Toro Numanthia

Community Tasting Notes (182) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  2/24/2024 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 93 Points

  My personal signature Tempranillo from Toro and its always a pleasure to come back to it. 50-100+ years old ungrafted vines farmed from more than 100 parcels at 700 meters of altitude. Aged for 18 months in new FR oak barrels, racked every 4 months. Deep garnet, bricking edges. Medium+ intensity aroma of prunes, dried cherries, tobacco, leather, chocolate, hint of dried herbs and touch of lavender. Medium+ body, soft and rich, concentrated but also most elegant vintage I’ve tasted, well structured, medium+ very fine sandy grippy tannins, chocolate, plum flavours, medium acidity. On a verge of tertiaries overpowering primary notes, therefore drink up.

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  7/31/2023 - StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 94 Points

  What a beauty this is becoming!
  Now on it's early plateau. After three hours of decanting, it came a lot alive like nothing else. Beautiful herbal and the fruit finally receding to give way for what a mature fantastic Tempranillo can be like.
  Inch by inch it's getting there.
  
  If you prefer primary fruit than it's time to drink up. If your taste is towards mature wine - absolutely no hurry.
  
  The cork was in very poor condition and there were signs of cepage. Nevertheless there was absolutely nothing to suggest oxidization.
  
  Can't wait for the next bottle 🥳

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  6/30/2023 - lgkurta Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Cork came out intact in very good shape. Double decant over 2 hours. 20 years old but the tannins make you think it’s 3 years old, they are quite abbrasive still. Otherwise a beautiful wine, nose of red fruit and raisin. Palate mostly tertiary at this point. Drink up!

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  6/10/2023 - bobh22314 wrote:

  Opened two bottles over 3 days. Both corks came out intact. Both bottles brown throughout. Fist bottle with Chinese food retained some fruit although very much on tge leather side. Okay would rate close to 90 as some fruit left with a moderate finish
  
  Second bottle first night leaking any fruit Kept overnight in fridge bottle open Second night sone fruit showing leather with a moderate finish. No tannins to resolve if you have any drink up

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  3/22/2023 - honest bob wrote: 90 Points

  From 75cl, perfectly stored since purchase in 2006; dried-out, inferior cork disintegrated on extraction. Double decanted 1 hour, improved until final drop. This is still an unrepentant brute of a wine, with intensely concentrated, slightly roasted fruit and still-tightly-coiled complex spice on the nose. Earthy–meaty, aromatic, dark-to-raisiny fruit on the thick-textured, sweet entry leads to surprisingly mighty raw-leather-like mid-palate tannins, still not resolved 20 years after the vintage. Just entering early maturity; well stored bottles surely have at least another 10 to 20 years of life ahead. Whether this equates with further improvement depends on just how aggressively you prefer your more histrionic-butch wines to strike a pose. Definitely one for the long term, and for those blessed with deep, cold cellars. 90(-92?)P

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