Deep and complex, chocolate, nut, leather and currant/cherry liqueur aromas with delicate earth and mineral highlights. Full, dark, rich and warming palate. Big and chewy with a long sweet/savoury finish. Intensity, complexity, maturity and value. 4.5/5
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There's quite the remarkable nose on this well-aged, high-value Toro, the dark fruit (ripe blackberry, blackcurrant) providing enormous depth while taking a back seat to gorgeously appealing cinnamon, clove, vanilla, buttercream, milk chocolate, and even a hint of ginger, much of this replaying on the palate. It suggests sweetness, suitable for dessert, but even at this fairly advanced age it still has plenty of tannic structure to keep it grounded. If anything, it may be a little too much, overdone, while also a bit rough on the finish, but there's no denying the flavour impact, and the emergence of tart red berry fruit and new leather just adds to the complexity. Simply an excellent example of warm-climate Tempranillo, at a fabulous price.
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Aromatic, rounding currant and smoky blackberry with pencil lead minerality and a bit of leathery evolution. Very full bodied and assertive palate. Big fruit, high alcohol; flavourful with mineral complexities. Long, toasty nutty finish. Tastes as if you were to drag a top Pauillac Chateau into the Spanish sun. 5/5
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12/21/2021 - joesi16 Likes this wine:
Dark fruit and a nice aroma, finish is long but still a bit hot. Very fine sediment in last glass
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9/22/2016 - Double-A Likes this wine: 93 Points
Deep and complex, chocolate, nut, leather and currant/cherry liqueur aromas with delicate earth and mineral highlights. Full, dark, rich and warming palate. Big and chewy with a long sweet/savoury finish. Intensity, complexity, maturity and value.
4.5/5
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5/22/2016 - joesi16 Likes this wine:
Nice Toro, went well with a london broil. EZ rebuy for $15.
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9/16/2015 - mjwstickings Likes this wine: 90 Points
There's quite the remarkable nose on this well-aged, high-value Toro, the dark fruit (ripe blackberry, blackcurrant) providing enormous depth while taking a back seat to gorgeously appealing cinnamon, clove, vanilla, buttercream, milk chocolate, and even a hint of ginger, much of this replaying on the palate. It suggests sweetness, suitable for dessert, but even at this fairly advanced age it still has plenty of tannic structure to keep it grounded. If anything, it may be a little too much, overdone, while also a bit rough on the finish, but there's no denying the flavour impact, and the emergence of tart red berry fruit and new leather just adds to the complexity. Simply an excellent example of warm-climate Tempranillo, at a fabulous price.
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9/8/2015 - Double-A Likes this wine: 95 Points
Aromatic, rounding currant and smoky blackberry with pencil lead minerality and a bit of leathery evolution. Very full bodied and assertive palate. Big fruit, high alcohol; flavourful with mineral complexities. Long, toasty nutty finish.
Tastes as if you were to drag a top Pauillac Chateau into the Spanish sun.
5/5
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