Bodegas Carmen Rodriguez Carodorum Issos Toro 2006
-
Robert
Parker
Product Details
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
-
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2006 Issos offers up plenty of pepper and baking spices as well as fragrant incense and blackberry aromas. Supple and forward on the palate, the wine offers a big mouthful of fruit buttressed by enough ripe tannin to carry the wine through 2014.
Practically garage wines, only 21 000 bottles are made. Everything is carefully crafted by hand.
The small Estate has 16 Has in small plots southeast from Toro, particularly the Cascajera Estate. This part of Zamora is one of the very few places in Spain where Phylloxera could never take hold. For their top wine, Carodorum uses only grapes that come from ungrafted vines that are more than 100 years old. Guiller continues to take care of the vines in the same way his ancestors did-- without pesticides or fertilizers; all organic matter is re-used; the soil is plowed without machines; by hand in some cases, the grapes are hand-picked.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.