Toro Albala Don PX Gran Reserva 375ml 1988 Size::Half Bottle On the nose

On the nose

It's a dry wine

The majority of this blend comes from the 2013 vintage with roughly 15% reserve wines sourced from the 2011 and 2012 vintages

Silky and slippery towards a slow-building

Toro Albala Don PX Gran Reserva 375ml 1988 Size::Half Bottle On the noseToro Albal reserve select lots of their best vintage wines for the Gran Reserva label. These unusually rich Pedro Ximnez wines are destined for a very long aging in oak barrels. After filling and sealing, these barrels are left for decades in their single vintage state. It's during this slow maturation that the wines undertake their delicious, savoury, rancio transformation (though controlled exposure to oxygen) which brings a kind of nutty, iodine