4 Rosas Negras Ancient Vines DO Toro, 2020

Intense plum in colour, 2020 4 Rosas is a dense, concentrated wine with chocolate and dark fruit aroma. This is big, bold muscular Toro with succulent fruit and a long, bitter cherry finish. The region of Toro, in northern Spain, sits west of Rueda, just 40 miles from the border with Portugal. It produces big meaty, full-bodied reds from Tinta de Toro. In fact, Tinta de Toro is nothing other than a local strain of Tempranillo adapted to the hot desert-like conditions of Toro in summer and cold winters producing small, deeply coloured thick-skinned grapes with lots of tannins. This was produced with grapes from 60-year-old vines planted on sandy soils and spent four months in new French and American oak.