Toro Albala Don PX Gran Reserva 375ml 1988 Size::6 Bottle Case The fine savoury note and

The fine savoury note and mineral acidity

-Tim Shand

2014 has been a terrific white and rosé vintage in the Rhône

the other half in wood—mainly 228-litre used Burgundian pièces from Jaeger-Defaix in Rully

The wood is crisp

Toro Albala Don PX Gran Reserva 375ml 1988 Size::6 Bottle Case The fine savoury note andToro 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