Numanthia, Termanthia Vintage:2005 dried herbs and spices

dried herbs and spices

155g/l residual sugar

on the old maps

(from 60+ year old vines and the vineyard is a whopping 4 ha monopole within Perrières)

This is a terrific villages that easily approaches 1er quality

Numanthia, Termanthia Vintage:2005 dried herbs and spicesThe 2015 Termanthia is a selection from 120 year old ungrafted Tinta de Toro vines from six plots that fermented in French oak vats with commercial yeasts and matured in barrels for 22 months; this vintage is when they started using less new oak. It has 15% alcohol and a pH of 3. 67. Tasting this next to the 2016, it feels like there's more toasty oak here, and it's very balsamic with notes of camphor and a little minty, a little heady and quite ripe