Bodegas Ramon Ramos Monte Toro Roble 2009
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The 2009 Monte Toro Roble is 30-year-old 100% Tinta de Toro aged for 6 months in French and American oak. A glass-coating opaque purple color (a trademark of the 2009 vintage in Toro), it surrenders an inviting perfume of violets, spicy black fruits, and an earthy minerality. Displaying some complexity as well as succulent fruit, this lengthy effort is an outstanding value that can be enjoyed now and over the next 6+ years.
The grapes are picked by hand at dawn in small 40 pound cases. Fermentation takes place in small concrete tanks, plot by plot, to preserve its individuality. Only native yeasts are used. The wines are bottled without fining or filtration, direct into the bottle from the casks.
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.