"A deep, youthfully brooding bouquet offers dark cherry, blackcurrant, incense and suave oak spices. Spicy cherry and dark berry flavors show an exotic anise quality and slow-building sweetness. This gently tannic, chewy, extremely persistent wine finishes with echoes of oak spice and floral pastille, not to mention excellent vivacity."

Review

Wine Spectator Review: Espresso and allspice flavors show oak, but there's plenty of ripe black fruit on the palate. The plush texture is supported by ripe, muscular tannins, and licorice, mineral and graphite notes add complexity. Best from 2010 through 2020. –TM Robert Parker Review: The 2005 Termes was aged for 16 months in seasoned French oak. It exhibits a classy nose of cedar, mineral, spice box, and blackberry. Sweet, layered, and ripe, with tons of flavor, this balanced effort will evolve for 3-4 years and drink well through 2018.-JM

Technical notes

Proprietary vineyard “Teso los Carriles” situated in Argujillo (Zamora). Vineyard Size: 4.78 hectares (11.04 acres). Average altitude: 800 m. (2,625 ft). Geology: sandy soil with a large deposit of fine gravel on the surface. Sub-soil: clay-limestone. Age: planted with ungrafted vines in the second half of the 19th century. Variety: Tinta de Toro (100%), pre-phylloxera (own rooted Vitis vinifera) and autochthonous. Type of training: Head-trained in goblet. Vine Spacing: 3 x 3,5 m. (9.8 x 11.5 ft.). Number of Vines per hectare: 900 (365 per acre) Yield per hectare: 7.2 Hl. (76.92 gallons/acre). Soil amendments: Organic material Harvest: Hand picked in boxes with rigorous selection of the fruit for optimum health and maturity.