2008 Terra D' Uro Toro Uro

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  6/6/2022 - #1 or #2? Likes this wine: 90 Points

  purple-black and totally opaque. this is a brute and you know it from the moment you pull the cork. nose is big and fruity, blackberry and blueberry fruit but with a stewed like quality, like amarone. lots of vanilla and maybe a touch of smoke. palate is fruit fwd and has both acid and tannin. you also get something green as well as something charcuterie-like which keeps it interesting but the wine is somehow too big, alcoholic and heavy handed. it's good quality but it's somehow a little clunky and not quite balanced enough overall. preferred it on day1 with a 3hr decant. unsure if more time will sort this out. best to drink in the short term now.

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  12/1/2021 - forceberry wrote: 87 Points

  Made with Tempranillo grapes sourced from the ungrafted centenarian Finca La Coscojosa vineyard. Fermented in old 5000-liter oak vats, then moved into new 500-liter French oak demi-muids, in which the wine is aged for 20 months. 14,5% alcohol. Double-decanted for 5 hours prior to tasting. Tasted blind.
  
  Dense, fully opaque blackish-red color with an evolved maroon hue. Very sweetish, rather evolved and somewhat boozy nose with intense aromas of prunes and raisiny dark fruit, some toasty oak notes of chocolate and baking spices, a little bit of alcohol, light meaty sausage tones, a hint of sweet volatile lift, a touch of pipe tobacco and a whiff of tomato puree. The wine is very big, concentrated and chewy on the palate with a mouth-filling body and evolved flavors of raisins and prunes, some savory meaty tones, a little bit of very ripe blackcurrant, light mocha oak tones, sweet oaky hints of toasty wood spice and a hot touch of alcohol heat. The acidity feels moderately high for such a big wine, yet not high enough to keep the wine entirely in balance. Fortunately, the formidable, quite grippy tannins lend a good amount of firmness and structure to the wine so that it never comes across as soft or blowzy. The finish is rich and powerful with quite a bit of grippy tannins and long, sweetish flavors of raisiny dark fruit, evolved beef jerky tones, some earthy spice, a little bit of wizened blackcurrant, light toasty notes of mocha oak, a sweet hint of prune and a lifted touch of VA. The high alcohol lends some noticeable heat to the aftertaste.
  
  Typical of a flagship Toro, this is a huge blockbuster of a wine. Stylistically this kind of super-rich, hot, oaky and mouth-filling bruiser isn't really up my alley and I'm not entirely sure if the wine has really benefited from aging - although the wine doesn't feel like it has become any more graceful than it must've been in its youth and I'm not sure if it has developed that much aged complexity, the fruit department has started to turn rather raisiny and the powerful oak is yet to integrate with the fruit. My first guess was Amarone based on its huge size, high alcohol and raisiny fruit and after that I guessed Ribera del Duero, based on the faint blackcurrant notes I tend to associate with blockbuster Tempranillos from Castilla y León. Well, at least the second guess wasn't that far-fetched! All in all, not really my cup of tea and perhaps not going to improve much with age - even if the wine probably won't fall apart anytime soon - but the fans of huge bruiser wines might find this much more enjoyable than I did (and that is not to say I didn't like the wine!).

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  2/22/2021 - redbrix Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dark purple and black color. Complex and high octane nose of oak, cherry, grape with some grassy notes. Very dry, with tannin, but smooth and slightly round. Good fruit flavor of cherry.

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  6/7/2020 - CDT Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dark ruby in colour with perhaps a slight garnet tinge.
  Aroma is jammy dark fruit with earth & leather. Palate is blackberry/dark ripe plum with a background of earth & old French oak. There is medium acidity & considerable soft approachable tannins.
  The finish is long & considering the ABV of 14.5%, this wine is well balanced.
  Excellent quality for this price point.

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  3/7/2020 - ernie14 wrote: 87 Points

  87/100. Have now tried quite a few bottles of this over the past few years and have not been impressed. Purple coloured with no obvious signs of ageing. Nose almost reminds me of cognac. Ripe plum and very concentrated on the palate, with present alcohol. Quite acidic. Not quite worth the price IMO.

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