Telmo Rodríguez ‘Dehesa Gago’ Tinta de Toro 2022

Long-term mates and business partners, Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza have been kicking wine goals together for nearly 30 years. They started working together in the late 1980s at Telmo's family Rioja estate, Remelluri, and went on to lead changes in conceptions of Spanish wine in the post-Franco era (a time of significant recovery and re-imagining).  Telmo and Pablo are among the most thoughtful of Spain's post-industrial organic producers, deeply committed to authenticity.

Organic and biodynamic, indigenous genetics – no nursery clones, no chemicals, no trellises

Glacé cherry and dark fruit tea, with touches of smoky brush, pepperminty and whole-oforchard balsalm and florals. There’s husky spice, with the powerful silt-clay soils of Toro are in clear evidence underneath. All lovely and exuberant, but the real point with this wine is just how delicate and pared back it is compared to the Toro norm. Unwooded (aged in concrete and old wood vats) it's not fruity, not raw, not heavy, just beautifully moderated fruit.