2017 Toro Albala Don PX Half Bottle 375ml, Montilla-Moriles Andalucia

2017 Toro Albala Don PX Half Bottle 375ml, Montilla-Moriles Andalucia

1994 Toro Albalá Don PX Gran Reserva Half Bottle 375ml, Montilla-Moriles Andalucia

1994 Toro Albalá Don PX Gran Reserva Half Bottle 375ml, Montilla-Moriles Andalucia

1990 Toro Albalá Don PX Gran Reserva Half Bottle 375ml, Montilla-Moriles Andalucia

A$60.90
Availability: Out of stock
SKU
B17708V90
90
17% alc, 100% Pedro Ximénez. 
Toro Albalá put aside select lots of their best vintage wines for later release under the Gran Reserva label. These rich and complex Pedro Ximénez wines are destined for very long aging in oak barrels. After filling and sealing, these barrels are left for decades in their single-vintage state. It’s during this slow maturation that the wines undertake their delicious, savoury transformation (through controlled exposure to oxygen), which brings the nutty, iodine, rancio characters that infinitely complex the sweet, fruit-cakey wine and also somehow gives a greater impression of freshness. Naturally, as the wines age, they concentrate in flavour and texture, the colour darkens and the mouthfeel thickens. Yet at the same time, something more vibrant emerges as the levels of acidity also rise. After close to 30 years in barrel, the 1990 is absolutely singing. It has 387 grams of residual.

The 1990 Don PX Gran Reserva has unusually high sugar, close to 400 grams (when this range is usually less than 360). Compared with the rest of the wines, this feels like a very good value. These wines mature in old 550-liter American oak casks for decades, and the wines have great concentration. It felt unusually perfumed, a little spirity and with notes that made me think of Moscatel—notes of orange peel and flowers, and of course the raisin and dry dates and figs from these wines made with raisins. It’s sweet and dense like motor oil and leaves a combination of raisins and chocolate in the spicy and faintly warm finish. This was bottled in early 2019.
93 points Luis Gutiérrez robertparker.com

Wow! Dried grapes are fermented as far as possible (this has 387g/litre of residual sugar) then lightly fortified and freshened up with some Amontillado before ageing for 28 years in old US oak butts. Complex, rich walnuts, spiced rye, dried fruit, iodine, coffee, licorice and treacle. Try with dark chocolate or pour over ice cream.
93 points Tina Gellie Decanter Magazine

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Product/Service Sold Out Yes
En Primeur No
New Arrivals No
Wine Type Stickies/Sweet Wines
Country Spain
Region Andalucia
Varietals Pedro Ximenez
Vintage 1990
Bottle Size 375ml
Wine Points 90
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