Bodega San Roman Toro 2011

Professional Ratings

• 93 Wine Spectator
  Black plum, coffee and mineral notes show depth and richness in this plush, firm red. The wine is balanced and harmonious, with an alluring floral finish. Drink now through 2025.
• 92 Wine Enthusiast
  This vintage of San Román is extremely ripe and oaky, with buttery richness sharing the nose with asphalt, wood resin, cassis and dark-berry aromas. The palate is dense and deep, but it also shows a bit of dead weight compared to better prior versions. Flavors of black fruits, woodspice and pepper finish long and a touch raisiny. Drink through 2020.
• 92 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2011 San Roman, is year in, year out, one of the most reliable wines of the appellation, pure Tempranillo (locally known as Tinta de Toro), the fruit from over 35-year-old, ungrafted and head-pruned vineyards planted on sandy, stony soils rich in clay in different villages across the Toro appellation. The wine aged for two years in French and American oak barrels, 80% of which were new. It’s an earthy wine with plenty of dark aromas of peat, fountain pen ink, graphite and tar, with very ripe fruit, black and blue berries. The palate is quite full-bodied, with abundant but fine tannins and enough acidity and persistence. A Toro with character.
• 92 Wine & Spirits
  An impenetrable fortress, this wine's thick wall of tannins contains an immense center of fruit and spice. Air slowly breaches that wall, revealing all the generous juiciness of a wine that will develop for ten years of more in the cellar. Maurodos is owned by Mariano García, the former winemaker at Vega Sicilia and, in the 1990s, a pioneer in the renaissance of Toro.