This is an excellent wine and an equally impressive value. Perfectly mature but hardly played out, it has absorbed all of its oak and is very nicely integrated. Despite its seamlessness, it is hardly simple or monolithic. Subtle aromas of smoke and spices augment fruit notes that are mostly black in tone, but with some red shades as well. The tannins are quite fine-grained and soft, but they lend enough grip to provide structure to the finish. A steal at $15.
Finca Sobreno, Toro (Castilla y León, Spain) 2012
By Michael Franz