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Clemente Rodriguez, La Grulla, Argujillo, Toro, February 2008 Toro Toro is known for its undulating terrain, its reddish soil and its beautiful stone formations. It is situated in remote Castille, where the Duero river meanders among canyons before entering Portugal as the Douro. An area of ancient yet impoverished viticulture, it had been largely orgotten until recently. The vines here are planted, ungrafted, on sand and rocky soils. The low planting density and the somewhat arbitrary pruning methods were surprising at first, giving the appearance of chaos, but the region seduced them in the end.
| | At the end of the 1990s, Toro started to be discovered once again, mostly because the influence of nearby Ribera del Duero. Unlike the latter, the Toro area can draw on a wealth of old vineyards. Telmo and Pablo are part of Toro’s renaissance. The direct planting, without American rootstocks, allowed them to explore Tempranillo intimately in its purest expression. It’s the continuation of a study that has been underway since the 1980s.
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La Grulla, Argujillo, Toro, February 2008 
La Grulla, Argujillo, Toro, February 2008
Toro, February 2008 
Tinta de Toro vine, February 2008 
“Guarda Viñas” hut, February 2008
Toro landscape, February 2008 
Toro soil, February 2008
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