Flor de Vetus

Flor de Vetus is a Toro wine with a focus first and foremost on fruit, accompanied by a wide range of subtle ageing notes thanks to extremely careful work with wood in the winery. A modern wine, it is friendly and pleasant, ready to be enjoyed immediately. Just like the other wines from this winery and the Grupo Artevino wine group, it offers a good structure, balance and complexity.

It is created from Tinta de Toro (Tempranillo) grapes planted around 1990 in a 20-hectare plot of marl and clay soils. The goblet-shaped bush vines growing at altitudes of 700 meters suffer to survive in a tough climate, but give a truly sublime fruit. The very low amount of rainfall, hours of intense sunlight, and large day-night temperature differences ensure the grapes are aromatic jewels.

The grape harvest is usually collected by hand in the first week of October to ensure the fruit reaches the winery in the best possible conditions. A careful production process creates a fresh and pleasant wine which gives a different outlook on the typicity of Tinta de Toro. It has an intense cherry-red colour with a violet rim and offers a medium-high aromatic intensity in the nose, combining ripe red and black fruits and hints of liquorice, spices, and a light touch of coffee-flavoured toffee. Both powerful and fresh in the mouth, Flor de Vetus is a well-structured and perfectly balanced wine combining a fruity character with gentle toasted aromas. Fresh undergrowth and pepper appear as the wine becomes both refreshing and moreish on drinking. A clear and pleasant finish with a discrete hint of liquorice in each sip.