Appellation: Toro
Castilla y León · Spain
18.2°C
303mm
Warm
Growing-season mean of 17–19 °C
14.4°C
Day–night swing; higher preserves acidity.
Representative-location climate normals, 1989–2018 (TerraClimate), read at Zamora. Source: Puga et al., OENO One 2022.
- Dry, powerful red (Tempranillo / Tinta de Toro)
Grapes of Toro
A bold, sun-drenched red from a local strain of Tempranillo in Castilla y León.
Toro sits on the high plateau of Castilla y León, where hot days, cold nights, and poor soils yield small, thick-skinned grapes. The local Tempranillo, known here as Tinta de Toro, produces wines far more powerful than those of nearby Rioja or Ribera del Duero.
Expect dense, dark, high-alcohol reds full of ripe black fruit and firm tannin. Old, ungrafted bush vines — some over a century old, having survived on sandy soils that resisted phylloxera — are among the region's greatest assets.
Production is recorded by region, not by appellation.