Numanthia, Termanthia Vintage:2005 the 2009 will only benefit

the 2009 will only benefit from further time in bottle

This is long

(from 60+ year old vines and the vineyard is a whopping 4 ha monopole within Perrières)

which is quite favorable for ageworthy wines

underbrush and a touch of animale that can also be found on the generous and quite fleshy flavors that possess excellent volume as well as buckets of dry extract that almost render the firm and ripe tannins invisible on the massively long finish

Numanthia, Termanthia Vintage:2005 the 2009 will only benefitThe 2015 Termanthia is a selection from 120 year old ungrafted Tinta de Toro vines from six plots that fermented in French oak vats with commercial yeasts and matured in barrels for 22 months; this vintage is when they started using less new oak. It has 15% alcohol and a pH of 3. 67. Tasting this next to the 2016, it feels like there's more toasty oak here, and it's very balsamic with notes of camphor and a little minty, a little heady and quite ripe