Toro – who makes the best wine?

As you can see from these tasting notes, and from my beginner's guide to the wines of Toro, some excellent wines are being made in this Spanish wine region. The relatively high proportion of disappointing scores out of 20 is, I am sure, a direct result of the principal tasting on which this is based having been organised generically. Such exercises have to include the weak as well as the strong  – in fact what this particular tasting so conspicuously lacked was the strongest of all, Pintia from the Vega Sicilia team.

Most of these notes are from that generic tasting in London...