Toro Albala Amontillado NV domaines-schlumberger The grapes are processed as

The grapes are processed as quickly as possible to preserve freshness

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Although the wines from this mountainous and sparsely populated area are not very well known outside of Italy

The palate is concentrated and long

Toro Albala Amontillado NV domaines-schlumberger The grapes are processed asAs the name suggests this is seriously old Amontillado. Like all of Toro Albala's wines it is made from 100% Pedro grapes. The average age of the wine when bottled is 30 35 years old (with a minimum age of 25 years old). It's a dry wine, yet remarkably, at 21% ABV., the wine has not been fortified: the ripeness of the fruit's sugars at picking coupled with the length of ageing accounts for all the natural alcohol in the wine. This is legendary stuff