Gago Toro (750ml)

Telmo Rodriguez makes wine is Toro, in the province of Zamora, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.  He is one of the country’s pioneer winemakers, advocating native grape varietals tied to the climates and conditions of their sites.  While Telmo Rodriguez makes rare and limited wines of great character and quality, his everyday wines are equally impressive, and widely recognized for the tremendous value they offer.  Telmo Rodriguez has worked tirelessly to elevate the quality of wine from this region and his efforts have paid off with the wine from Toro enjoying international acclaim.   Telmo, along with a few other notable winemakers in the region, was one of the first to rediscover vineyards of decades-old, bush-trained vineyards in Toro. He was a major force in elevating the region to one of the most interesting  “new” wine regions of Spain.  Since 1998, Telmo has worked with 8 families of growers practicing traditional viticulture. Vineyards planted in low density, 100% bush vines. Harvest is completely manual, using small boxes.

The Telmo Rodriguez wines in Toro are named after a Spanish breed of bull that is both elegant and powerful. That epitomizes the challenge in the region, to work in areas that are cooler, and with vines that are trained and adapted to the heat, so that a freshness plays with the fruit concentration.  The 19th century lower-case “g” typeface that appears on all the Toro wines is transformed, and modernized, by a bull horn.