Numanthia
Vintage: | 1998 |
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Description: | The 1998 Numanthia is an explosively rich, super-concentrated wine of riveting intensity. The color is a dense purple, and the wine has soaked up its 18 months in new French oak. It offers a smoky, blackberry and cherry-scented nose of extraordinary purity and precision. Full-bodied, enormously-endowed, and unctuously-textured, this monstrous wine displays tremendous potential. Because of its low acidity, it can be approached now, but it is best aged for another 2-3 years, and drunk over the following two decades. This compelling new offering proves what can be achieved in the appellation of Toro. Bravo! A sensational new offering, this wine will prove to be a breakthrough effort for the Toro appellation. Made from old (70-100 years), ungrafted vines planted at an elevation of 2300 feet, yields were a minuscule 1.5 tons of fruit per acre. The wine was aged |
Price: | $ 720.00 |
Price in original currency: | None |
Previously available from Westgarth Wines
Address: |
475 Washington Blvd. Marina del Rey, CA 90292 United States |
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Telephone (regular): | 310-943-9336 |
First added to 1000 Corks on February 23, 2021.
This product was inactivated January 20, 2023.
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