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Elias Mora Don Daniel

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Winery

ELIAS MORA, BODEGAS

Appellation

Toro D.O

Grape(s)

100% Tinta de Toro, from 50 year old, single vineyard “ La Cañadica” estate grown bush vines.

Altitude/Soil

750 meters / stony soils with clay and limestone in the subsoil

Farming Methods

Organic methods, not certified

Harvest

Hand harvested

Production

Alcoholic in stainless steel. Malo in Frenck oak

Aging

Aged for 12 months in French oak barrels

Suggested Retail Price

160

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Elias Mora Don Daniel 2018

98 (WRO)

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98	Wine Review Online	Only 250 cases of this wine were produced in honor of Victoria Benvenides’ father, and I’ve never seen it before, so your odds of finding a bottle without some earnest efforts are pretty slim. It offers spectacular purity of fruit on a big but stylish frame, with essentially perfect balance between the fruit’s density and the French oak’s supportive structure. Silky texture and near-perfect integration suggests that the fruit was immaculate for starters and then treated with great care when macerated and fermented, and oak aging was only 12 months in duration — half the time of the Reserva from this house. The fruit is sourced from 50-year-old, single vineyard “La Cañadica” estate. It was absolutely marvelous when re-tasted after 24 hours — impeccable and fresh, lithe but still very expressive both aromatically and in terms of flavor, without any extraneous weight. This is substantially more expensive than anything in the Elías Mora lineup, and that always seems to exert some pressure to beef up a wine and whack it with a lot of oak so that buyers will feel like they got their money’s worth. However, my impression was that this wasn’t made with buyers in mind, but rather as an homage, and wow… what a tribute, both to Don Daniel and also to the skill of all who tended the vines and helped craft this wine. Michael Franz - Issue: June 6, 2023

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Elias Mora Don Daniel 2019

93 (VfC)

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93	View from the Cellar	The 2019 Don Daniel bottling is named in homage to Elías Mora’s father. The wine is made from a single vineyard of fifty year-old, organically-farmed bush vines of Tempranillo and the wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in French oak casks. It is given one year of elevage in the same barrels and the 2019 vintage here comes in at a full fifteen percent octane. The wine delivers a deep, complex and impressively vibrant nose of cassis, black raspberries, chocolate, a touch of cigar wrapper, dark soil tones and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, ripe and exceptionally well-balanced for its octane, with a sappy core of fruit, buried, chewy tannins and excellent focus and grip on the long and nascently complex finish. This is going to be an outstanding bottle of Toro with sufficient bottle age, but it will demand a bit of patience before it starts to drink with generosity. John Gilman - Issue #103 - January/February 2023.

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