Alabaster 2011

"The 2011 Alabaster is produced with the fruit of over 100-year-old Tempranillo vineyards that were hand-destemmed and fermented in open vats with soft remontage and pigeage. The wine aged for 18 months in brand new French oak barrels. It has a dark profile with notes of peat, graphite, smoke and dark berries with a lactic hint lurking from the background. It’s subtler and more closed than the 2011 Victorino, equally full-bodied and ripe, with more noticeable tannins and a slightly warm finish. A big, ripe Toro, true to its birthplace that might need one more year in bottle to show better integration. This might be more powerful than the Victorino, but is it better? Perhaps in the long term. Only 4,000 bottles were produced. Drink 2015-2021".