Wine of the Week
Interesting bottles keep turning up from Spain. This one isn’t from well-known Rioja, Ribera del Duero or Penedes but from Toro in Castile-Leon. Made entirely from tinto de Toro, a local relative of Rioja’s Tempranillo grape, and aged in French and American oak, it’s an austere, focused red fleshed out with ripe fruit and tannins. It seems to hold in its taste some of the stony soil and heat of north central Spain. Like so many Mediterranean wines, it’s made for food. It goes beautifully with meat, especially lamb, and duck too. And this dry, full-bodied wine is powerful enough to stand up to anything cooked on the barbecue.
About $26. Available at Wine House, (310) 479-3731 in West Los Angeles; Woodland Hills Wine Co., (818) 222-1111 in Woodland Hills; and Wine Exchange, (714) 974-1454 in Orange. If you can’t find this wine, have your local store contact the distributor, Associated Wine Distributors, (707) 963-8055.
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