The 2002 Termes represents the owners’ attempt to provide a high quality, realistically priced Toro. This dark ruby-colored, cleanly made effort is filled with fruit, white chocolate, pepper, and spice. A hedonistic, fruit-driven wine that reactionary terroiristes will despise because it provides too much pleasure, it should be consumed over the next several years given the vintage’s fragile fruit.
Broker Jorge Ordonez is heavily involved in this project, which is an attempt to revive high quality wines in Toro, a distinctive viticultural area that was devastated by phylloxera. There are a number of serious wines emerging from Toro, but Numanthia may be the most perfectionist wine of the appellation (although Vega Sicilia’s Pintia and the Campo Elysio from Michel Rolland are among the worthy competitors).
Importer: Jorge Ordonez, Fine Estates From Spain, Dedham, MA; tel. (781) 461-5767