Terra d'Uro Selección 2012

"The 2012 Terra d’Uro Selección is produced with grapes from their 13.7-hectare ancient ungrafted El Romeral vineyard, located at 720 meters altitude. It fermented at slow temperature, underwent malolactic in barrel and had an élevage in French barriques (30% of them new) for 20 months. Compared with the other wines, I felt the dry and warm growing season that resulted in a riper, more powerful wine with a mixture of black fruit and spicy oak, but without excess. In fact, in 2012 they didn't produce the top of the range Uro, and all the best fruit was used for this. There are more tannins here, some austerity and a chalky sensation that calls for food. Ideal for a winter stew. Very good! 30,000 bottles produced and bottled in two lots".