Prima Toro - 2022 (750ml)

93 points View from the Cellar

Bodegas San Román’s 2022 Prima Tinto from Bodegas San Román is composed from a cépages of eighty-five percent tempranillo and fifteen percent garnacha, with the oldest vines here being more than fifty years of age! The vineyards are farmed organically, with conversion to biodynamics well under way. The 2022 was aged in French oak casks and foudres this year, of varying ages. The 2022 Prima comes in listed at fourteen percent octane in this vintage and offers up a refined aromatic constellation of black cherries, black plums, coffee bean, an excellent base of soil tones, gentle meatiness, a touch of new leather, tempranillo spices, a refined framing of oak and a topnote of distant bonfire. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, ripe and shows off outstanding depth of fruit at the core, with good soil signature, buried and well-integrated tannins and a long, complex and impeccably balanced, youthful finish. This is going to be simply outstanding juice once it has shed some tannin! 2035-2075.

92 The Wine Advocate 

The juicy, primary and young red 2021 Prima was produced with 85% Tinta de Toro softened with 15% Garnacha and other varieties, resulting in a fresh, floral and aromatic wine that is not shy and hits the scale at 14.5% alcohol, keeping a pH of 3.6. It comes from younger vines whose grapes fermented destemmed with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel with pumping over. It matured in French oak barrels and foudres for 14 months. 160,000 bottles produced. 2024 - 2028. Luis Gutierrez – The Wine Advocate; Jun 19, 2025