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Their blind panels tasted 87 new-released ‘Ribera del Duero’ wines over the past 12 months. Patricio Tapia, their critic for spanish wines, rated 20 as exceptional (90+) an 11 as best buys.

Here the young 2009 and Roble 2008. It was time to rejuvenate this classic Ribera del Duero.

Studying the impact of the origin of oak in the composition and sensory quality of wines from the Toro for its barrel aging is the subject of the grant awarded by ADE and held Isabel Montes-Jovellar under the guidance of the winemaker Bodegas Frutos Villar, Nuria Peña. The study, which will last about a year, will focus on the evolution of a red bull harvest in 2008 based on the control wine (no oak aging) after having stored in Bordeaux barrels of 225 liters oak from different backgrounds, all new, leading coopers and subjected to different roasting processes, which may also be changing during the process to see how it behaves the wine during aging in different barrels. The findings of this study scholarship the Junta de Castilla y León will be novel, because although there are some made none has yielded results as complete and as beneficial in its application. And Frutos Villar’s will no doubt in mind when developing their Toro wines, marketed under the name and Miralmonte Muruve.

Over 600 people attended the October 26th presentation of the wines produced by 32 wineries in Vigo and organized by the Council of the Designation of Origin Toro. Shields Manor Hotel hosted the promotional event at which professionals were invited catering, hospitality or distribution to toresanos wines tasted. The regulator’s chairman, Amancio Moyano, gave a positive assessment of this new promotional event with which it has sought to “raise awareness of local wines and the best way is that you can prove.” During this presentation, industry professionals Regulatory Board thanked the initiative because “consider it very positive that in time can taste different wines.” With this presentation, we have tried to increase sales of the wines on the market toresanos Galician although according to the views expressed in this act, it is increasingly demanding more, although it still dominates the consumption of wines from Rioja.