Toro wine top buys: 30 to try

Despite high levels of tannins, they’re silky, fine-grained and almost totally integrated into the dense, complex palate. Raspberries, elderberries, red plums, fennel and dark chocolate with smoky minerality. Incredibly precise; long and resonant, with sure-footed grace.

An impressive organic wine that combines great power with elegance. Velvety texture and tannins, plus lavish elderberry, violet and liquorice fruit and a hint of vibrant raspberry on the long finish.

A hint of gaminess on the nose, but the palate is packed with generous fruit. Notes of chocolate from the oak are married to cherry and elderberry fruit, tobacco smoke and cedar. Silky texture with grip but also great finesse. Great persistence. Power and elegance combined.

Lots of sweet oak spice on the nose and palate, but there’s so much density of fruit that this will integrate over the long life of this wine. Complex flavours and densely packed tannins. One for the long haul.

Densely fruited, with notes of violets and damsons. The oak is unobtrusive, and the tannins are fine and dense. Nicely balanced.

Mature nose of earthy tobacco leaf, liquorice, prunes; some brightness on the palate with sweet oak spice. Lovely silky texture. Must have been a monster in its youth, but settling into a relatively sedate middle age.

Dense, chewy tannins provide a framework for a palate full of red cherry and berry fruit, with aniseed and tobacco-leaf flavours. There’s considerable freshness and generous oak spice that should integrate in time, and a long finish.

Complex and polished, with incense, cherry and chocolate on the palate, allied to some earthy, leathery development. Dense tannins are just beginning to integrate and there’s a burst of freshness on the finish, with plenty of rich fruit. Lots of oak, but it belongs to the wine.

Red liquorice, salty minerality and tobacco leaves blended with plums and prunes on the palate. Grippy tannins and bright acidity help to create an overall impression of poise and precision.