Maurodos "San Roman" Toro 2000

Red/purple.

Vinturi - grilled meat, coconut, black fruit custard/pastry, oak spice nose.

Round initial impression, increasingly constricted by acid/tannin synergy, like a thumbscrew, as we move through the wine. Nice red and black fruit action until the mouth shuts down in the finish. Needs food, animal protein and fat, in the worst way.

$35