Telmo Rodriguez, D.O Toro
D.O. Toro is about 1.5 hours due north of Madrid and specialises in Tempranillo. Toro's soil is rich, alluvial, and the temperature is blistering in summer, which makes it famous for very boisterous, full-bodied dry reds. It will not surprise if Toro continues to evolve as a key site for those attempting to garner Parker points by following the sugar-&-oak recipe for success!
Historically, Toro is an area of ancient yet impoverished viticulture which had been largely forgotten until recently. At the end of the 1990s, Toro started to be discovered once again, mostly because the influence of nearby Ribera del Duero. Unlike Ribera del Duero, Toro can draw on a wealth of old vineyards. Compañia de Vinos Telmo Rodriguez is part of Toro's renaissance. The replanting of ungrafted vines, without American rootstocks, has allowed them to explore Tempranillo intimately in its purest expression.
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Toro |
$32.00 |
12 |
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Cranberry, damask rose, pomegranate, cherry juice and cracked dark husky spices (not quite clove, or black pepper) mingle in a beautifully pure Toro red earthiness. A full and velvet-soft fruit palate, sheeted on quality fruit tannin. Medium volume, with spread and reach, never sweet, not heavy nor lumpy. Effortless and lovely. |
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Toro |
$66.00 |
12 |
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Entirely handmade, biologically grown, matured for 18 months in new French barriques. Beautifully made, with great finesse and integration, these wines beg for at least 3 years cellaring to allow regional perfume, earth, and all the many layers of complexity to really express. |
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Toro |
$140.00 |
12 |
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Faux-coffee-chicory roast aromas dance over a ‘garden of stones’, deep, cold-damp rock, yielding to wild anise and cranberry. Low, puckered and savoury, without the sugary extract Toro too often produces. Blue fruit perfume matches the fruit tannin in the mouth, enveloped by mineral, spice, oak and earth. |
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