Astonishing Library Releases from 1931 | Bodegas Toro Albalá PX up to 98pts WA
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Astonishing Library Releases from 1931 | Bodegas Toro Albalá PX up to 98pts WA
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(1x75cl) 1931Wine Advocate (98)
If someone told you they kept a wine for 84 years in barrel before bottling, you'd think they are nuts, right? Well, that's what the folks at Toro Albalá in Aguilar de la Frontera - in the province of Cordoba, part of the Montilla Moriles appellation - did with their 1931 Don PX Convento Selección. This is part of what they call 'vinos olvidados,' which means 'forgotten wines.' The border is amber, with green tints that denote very old age. Such old age provides an array of unusual aromas and flavors, including iodine and salt that compensate the sweetness (403 grams) and even the alcohol (18%). It's terribly balsamic, with notes of dry herbs and spices, cigar ash, carob beans (algarrobas), incense and noble woods. The palate is very, very sweet and concentrated, unctuous, dense, with a chewy texture. This goes beyond a glass of wine, a drop of it is like having a piece of cake. I don't think this reaches the complexity and depth of the 1946, which remains the benchmark for these old sweet PX, but it's truly terrific! 9,650 bottles were filled in June 2015.HK$2,100.00 -
Wine Advocate (98)
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.HK$3,005.00
One thing we have learnt over the years is that Cru clients love great, rare, old, scarce and unusual wines. Well …. this offer certainly ticks all those boxes!
The sweet wines below start with a 1931, go up to 98 points from Wine Advocate and most were many in bottle quantities numbered only in the thousands. You need to read on …
Bodegas Toro Albalá produces some of the most amazing dry and sweet Pedro Ximénez based wines from Aguilar de la Frontera - in the province of Cordoba, part of the Montilla Moriles appellation. The winery was founded in 1922 when a small wine grower José María Toro Albalá had the idea of keeping aged wines to create wine treasures destined for the most demanding palates. These family values still drive Toro Albalá’s philosophy today. Toro Albalá wines are now avidly sought by collectors throughout the world.
Critical recognition has been secured. The Toro Albalá Don P.X. Convento Selección 1946 was awarded 100 points by Robert Parker, the first sweet wine from Montilla-Moriles ever awarded a perfect score.
Incredibly, some of these wines, like the Don PX Convento Selección 1931, are kept in barrel at the domaine for over 80 years before bottling and release! Many of the wines below were produced in quantities of just a few thousands bottles, giving them great rarity as well as incredible age.
The range we have put together spans the years 1931 to 1968 for two of the best loved wines: Don P.X. Convento and Don P.X. Convento Selección. They form part of the Bodegas calls “vinos olvidados” (“forgotten wines”). These wines are museum quality, and we feel privileged to be able to offer tiny quantities to you today:
The sweet wines below start with a 1931, go up to 98 points from Wine Advocate and most were many in bottle quantities numbered only in the thousands. You need to read on …
Bodegas Toro Albalá produces some of the most amazing dry and sweet Pedro Ximénez based wines from Aguilar de la Frontera - in the province of Cordoba, part of the Montilla Moriles appellation. The winery was founded in 1922 when a small wine grower José María Toro Albalá had the idea of keeping aged wines to create wine treasures destined for the most demanding palates. These family values still drive Toro Albalá’s philosophy today. Toro Albalá wines are now avidly sought by collectors throughout the world.
Critical recognition has been secured. The Toro Albalá Don P.X. Convento Selección 1946 was awarded 100 points by Robert Parker, the first sweet wine from Montilla-Moriles ever awarded a perfect score.
Incredibly, some of these wines, like the Don PX Convento Selección 1931, are kept in barrel at the domaine for over 80 years before bottling and release! Many of the wines below were produced in quantities of just a few thousands bottles, giving them great rarity as well as incredible age.
The range we have put together spans the years 1931 to 1968 for two of the best loved wines: Don P.X. Convento and Don P.X. Convento Selección. They form part of the Bodegas calls “vinos olvidados” (“forgotten wines”). These wines are museum quality, and we feel privileged to be able to offer tiny quantities to you today:
