Termanthia 2015

A rich and intense red with lots of red-fruit aromas and flavors, together with lightly toasted oak and dried flowers. It’s full and powerful, but with a touch of elegance and focus. This is a selection of about five or six of the finest parcels. Drink or hold.

Beautiful nose with some character coming from the wood but also ripe fruit and jam. On the full-bodied palate, it has a great structure and complexity, with silky and soft tannins, intense sweet plum fruit and lively acidity. Poised, intense and very long. In a word, irresistible.

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.