Deep purple. Scent of cooked black fruit and spice. This is a vigorous, powerful wine, all briary and damson fruit, slightly bittersweet, just smoothed by the moderate oak influence, and offering bags of personality. An ideal accompaniment to grilled lamb. Now-2014

Product Code: QUR109

Bodegas Torreduero, a small and neat modern winery in the town of Toro, is part of the larger Bodegas Riojanas group, and winemaking here is overseen by Felipe Nalda. Toro is increasingly viewed as a good-value alternative to Rioja for its Tempranillo-based wines - in this region the local variant of Tempranillo is called “Tinto de Toro”. This is given just five months in new American oak barrels to round out the hearty fruit.