Toro Albalá
DON PX
2003
$62.45
Out of stock
About this winery
Antonio Sánchez is the driving force at Toro Albalá. A chemist and oenologist with a distinct view of the world of Andalusian fortified wines, he has been a revolutionary ever since the 1960s. The Wine Advocate, the world's leading wine magazine, described him as "idealistic, enterprising, and a winemaker with genuine character... a brilliant mastermind of Toro Albalá’s ideas... a rarity among Montilla-Moriles wineries." His childhood knowledge of the Andalusian terroir and the European...
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Production notes
After harvesting the grapes in mid-August, they are put to sunning, laying the grapes out under the sun in baskets for a period of between 7 and 9 days, requiring almost three kilos of grapes to obtain one liter of wine. Once pressed, the wine is alcoholized up to 9% vol. and remains in a stainless-steel tank for 12 months. After this time, it is alcoholized up to 17% vol. and put into American oak boots in oxidative ageing for 20 years.
Tasting notes
Dark mahogany colour, with nice movement inthe glass. Aromas of coffee, dark chocolate, raisined fruit, grapes,plums, dried apricots, hints of cinnamon, a littlebalsamic and a citric, orange sensation. Taste: Sweet entry, perfectly balanced with citricacidity, of great persistence.