Bodegas Teso La Monja Almirez Toro (2013)
750mL / Zamora / Spain
If you are a Temperanillo lover then this is at the top of it's game - absolutely delicious!
Tasting Notes:
A full bodied dense purple coloured wine with aromas of dark fruits and blackberries, cassis, liquorice, camphor and herbaceous notes.
The palate is full-bodied and lavish, concealing of its French oak aging, with velvety tannins combined with a long finish.
Grape Varieties:
100% Tint de Toro (Tempranillo)
Soil:
Sandy top soil with a very low content of organic compounds, the old vines grows their roots to a meter deep soil where the soil has more clay. No use of herbicides or chemical products.
Vinifications:
Traditional method, 100% de-stemmed, with light pump-overs during fermentation of 8 days with 2 pumpovers daily at 26º - 28ºC.
Extended maceration on skins for 14 days with light pump-overs.
Malolactic fermentation in barrel, 30% new French oak followed by 12 months aging in French oak.
Age of the barrels: 30% new French oak, 70% '1-wine' barrels.