100% Tinta de Toro. Almirez 2017 zeigt sich wieder als absoluter Bargain! Wunderbare, komplexe Nase. Konzentriert und körperreich. Ein TORO-Wein für alle Tage. Der ALMIREZ TORO DO ist einer von fünf Weinen der Bodega Teso la Monja . Die Besitzer der Bodega Teso la Monja sind keine geringeren als die Generationen alte Winzerfamilie EGUREN.
Issue 246 End of December 2019, The Wine Advocate I 30th Dec 2019 I Luis Gutiérrez
The second wine in the price hierarchy is the 2017 Almirez, produced with vines aged 10 to 35 years old from their 72 hectares of vineyards in the villages of Valdefinjas and Toro. It fermented in stainless steel and matured in French oak barrels, 30% of them new, the rest second use, for 14 months. 2017 is one of the driest years with one of the earliest harvests ever, but surprisingly enough, the wines feel lighter, fresh and aromatic, expressive and open and do not show any heat. Furthermore, it feels like a fresher year in the sense that the wine integrates the oak quite well. The change here, as Marcos Eguren explained, has been in the toast of the barrels, something they started in 2015; they have lighter toasts, from a long and slow toasting of the oak, and the barrel respects the fruit a lot more. Fine-tuning continues...