The 2015 Termanthia is a selection from 120-year-old ungrafted Tinta de Toro vines from six plots that fermented in French oak vats with commercial yeasts and matured in barrels for 22 months; this vintage is when they started using less new oak. It has 15% alcohol and a pH of 3.67. Tasting this next to the 2016, it feels like there's more toasty oak here, and it's very balsamic with notes of camphor and a little minty, a little heady and quite ripe with black rather than red fruit, abundant tannins and plenty of oak-related flavors. 10,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2017 and launched in 2022.

Dense and compact, there's a sense of restraint to this potent red, with flavors of black raspberry puree, tea rose, fig cake, dark chocolate and herb-laced balsamico unfurling slowly on the palate. The dark and brooding flavor range is buoyed by lively acidity, and minerally iron and smoke accents show on the finish, alongside fine, taut tannins. Drink now through 2030. 800 cases made, 400 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Spain / Toro Select to Add