Bodegas Teso la Monja Victorino 2019 75cl

100% Tinta de Toro (Tempranillo).

Eén van de uitzonderlijke "El Podio" wijnen in GuiaPenin 2018.

Een ongekende prijs- kwaliteitverhouding voor een wijn met zulke hoge waarderingen. 
Victorino komt van uitmuntende percelen in Zamora, Valdefinjas en Villabuena. De wijngaarden liggen op een hoogte van 650-800 m. en hebben een voornamelijk zandige bodem. Alle percelen zijn beplant met "Tinta de Toro" – een met de Tempranillo verwante druivensoort.

Teso la Monja Victorino heeft 20 maanden gerijpt in nieuw Frans eiken.
Bodegas Teso la Monja Victorino is een complexe, geconcentreerde, volle, soepele wijn. Rijp zwart fruit, mineralen, kruiden, "roasted tones", rijpe volle tannines en een indrukwekkende afdronk. Victorino treedt in de voetsporen van Numanthia .
Uitstekende combinatie met rood vlees (ossehaas, wild, lamsvlees), pate, jamon en harde kazen.

Wine Advocate:

The 2019 Victorino was selected from 45- to 100-year-old vines in La Jara and El Palo (Toro), El Rosal and El Risco in Villabuena del Puente and in Valdefinjas (35 hectares) that yielded 21 hectoliters per hectare, quite low. It had a traditional vinification of destemmed grapes with yeasts selected from their own vineyards with malolactic and 20 months of aging in 100% new French oak barrels. This is still very young and marked by the toast from the barrels, smoky and spicy and with ripe and juicy fruit, creamy, very round and with silky tannins, the signature of the vintage. It's tasty and has a clean and defined finish. Very 2019. 40,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2021.

Teso la Monja is the name of the project of the Eguren family (San Vicente, Sierra Cantabria, Viñedos de Páganos) in Toro where they started Numanthia, which was later sold to a French group. They then resumed their activity in Toro with old vineyards from which they produce around 300,000 bottles per vintage. The wines come in their powerful style, ripe and round, generously oaked and with the character from the zone. The range is defined by the age of the vineyards used, except in the single-vineyard Teso la Monja. As for the vintages, 2019 was a dry year (not necessarily warm), a year of good ripeness and soft tannins given there was finally some rain at the end of August. The 2018s are a little lighter and have a little more acidity. All of this within the regularity of Toro, of course. There was only one wine from 2017, the scarce top of the range, a year that is quite different from Ribera del Duero, as they didn't suffer from frost, it was a warm year of low yields.

 Luis Gutiérrez Jun 2021