WINE ADVOCATE 98 POINTS One more single-harvest, old sweet wine, the 1955 Don PX Convento Seleccion was bottled in September 2014 and it had been aged slowly in very old American oak barrels and getting thick and concentrated through evaporation. It's 320 grams of sugar are (partially) compensated by 6.5 grams of acidity. It has a nose and palate of chocolate-covered candied orange, spices, molasses. I'd say the dominant aromas in the nose are dark chocolate. It's very dense, developing notes of very concentrated licorice and balsamic, mint, camphor and evolving notes of petrol with time. Complex, rare and unique. 8,400 bottles. Bottled May 2017. Drink date: 2014-2028.
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The story of Toro Albala begins back in 1922 in the sun baked Andalusian country side some thirty miles south of Cordoba. It was then when a small farmer named Jose Maria Toro Albala had the audacious idea of saving his best barrels of sweet Pedro Ximenez wine for generations yet unborn. In the 1960's the torch was passed to Jose's nephew, Antonio Sanchez, who decided to start releasing his family's vinous time capsules to the world. All of Toro Albala's wines start with ripe white Pedro Ximenez grapes, but for these dessert wines the grapes are laid out and sun-dried on mats to further concentrate the sugars. The resulting wine has a brownish cast which gets darker and darker as the years pass by. The awesome single vintage examples below are virtually black, viscous as motor oil and packed to the gills with flavor. We were able to snag a few cases of the 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion a few years ago (which was an instant sell out) but we were always looking to obtain a broader selection from the Toro Albala treasury to better understand these immortal wines. After years of patient hunting our treasure ship has finally come in. Naturally supplies are very limited, so we urge you to get these "bucket list" nectars while the getting is good. Note that all these wines are bottled directly from the oak cask and have not been subjected to any finning additives or filtration techniques. The presence of fine lees in these natural wines doesn't devalue the product nor compromise their enjoyment. Also, there is virtually no time limit for wine storage as theses ambrosias only improve with age even after they have been uncorked.
WINE ADVOCATE 98 POINTS - "One more single-harvest, old sweet wine, the 1955 Don PX Convento Selección was bottled in September 2014 and it had been aged slowly in very old American oak barrels and getting thick and concentrated through evaporation. It's 320 grams of sugar are (partially) compensated by 6.5 grams of acidity. It has a nose and palate of chocolate-covered candied orange, spices, molasses. I'd say the dominant aromas in the nose are dark chocolate. It's very dense, developing notes of very concentrated licorice and balsamic, mint, camphor and evolving notes of petrol with time. Complex, rare and unique. 8,400 bottles."
Bottled May 2017.
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The story of Toro Albala begins back in 1922 in the sun baked Andalusian country side some thirty miles south of Cordoba. It was then when a small farmer named Jose Maria Toro Albala had the audacious idea of saving his best barrels of sweet Pedro Ximenez wine for generations yet unborn. In the 1960's the torch was passed to Jose's nephew, Antonio Sanchez, who decided to start releasing his family's vinous time capsules to the world. All of Toro Albala's wines start with ripe white Pedro Ximenez grapes, but for these dessert wines the grapes are laid out and sun-dried on mats to further concentrate the sugars. The resulting wine has a brownish cast which gets darker and darker as the years pass by. The awesome single vintage examples below are virtually black, viscous as motor oil and packed to the gills with flavor. We were able to snag a few cases of the 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion a few years ago (which was an instant sell out) but we were always looking to obtain a broader selection from the Toro Albala treasury to better understand these immortal wines. After years of patient hunting our treasure ship has finally come in. Naturally supplies are very limited, so we urge you to get these "bucket list" nectars while the getting is good. Note that all these wines are bottled directly from the oak cask and have not been subjected to any finning additives or filtration techniques. The presence of fine lees in these natural wines doesn't devalue the product nor compromise their enjoyment. Also, there is virtually no time limit for wine storage as theses ambrosias only improve with age even after they have been uncorked.
WINE ADVOCATE 98 POINTS - "One more single-harvest, old sweet wine, the 1955 Don PX Convento Selección was bottled in September 2014 and it had been aged slowly in very old American oak barrels and getting thick and concentrated through evaporation. It's 320 grams of sugar are (partially) compensated by 6.5 grams of acidity. It has a nose and palate of chocolate-covered candied orange, spices, molasses. I'd say the dominant aromas in the nose are dark chocolate. It's very dense, developing notes of very concentrated licorice and balsamic, mint, camphor and evolving notes of petrol with time. Complex, rare and unique. 8,400 bottles."
Bottled May 2017.
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