2012 Bodegas Elías Mora Toro Gran Elías Mora
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Single-vineyard wine. Tinta de Toro from a spot called Senda del Lobo. Bush vines dating back to 1952 planted on sandy soils with pebbles. It yields 2,500 kg/ha. Alcoholic fermentation in stainless-steel tanks. Non-inoculated bacteria are used in malolactic fermentation. Fining with albumin (egg white). Aged in French oak barrels for 17 months. Tasted blind. The wine has a really pungent expression showing plums, figs, baked black fruit and toasty oak charge; it is quite massive on the nose. The palate has maximum concentration, based on sweet fruit and sticky texture. Really charged with tannins and sweet fruit. Immensely powerful wine. (FC)
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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Brilliant ruby. Complex, intensely perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red fruits, incense, mocha and exotic spices, with a bright mineral overtone. Sweet and incisive on the palate, offering sappy, vivacious raspberry and lavender pastille flavors. In a seamless, graceful style, with a pliant, gently tannic finish emphatically echoing the floral quality. Made from fruit grown in a 70+-year-old vineyard, this wine was aged in new French for 17 months.
The 2012 Gran Elias Mora is pure Tempranillo from a single vineyard planted in the 1970s -- a vineyard called Senda del Lobo, which provides very low yields. The wine matured in oak barrels for 17 months, despite which the oak aromas are nicely integrated and folded into the fruit, revealing themselves in the shape of spices and hints of toasted bread. The wine is quite aromatic and expressive, and the palate is medium to full-bodied with some chewy tannins. This is a powerful Toro. 6,000 bottles.