We went to a tasting of old and rare PX sweet wines from Toro Albala over the weekend. My first encounter with this winery is with the Don PX 1972 and I had also tasted the 1962 which was also in the line-up the other day. I forgot which are the vintages I had previously tasted in the different HKIWSF over the years, but this time the other vintages are 2010, 1983 and the climax of the tasting the 100-pointed Parker rated 1946. A bottle of 1910 was also there to entice us to buy, but there were no takers.
The 2010 was very young and sweet, threatening and nearly succeeding to cloy. My wife had brought along some Roquefort and that saved the day. The 1983 was much darker, not so sweet but rich a bit smokey and still went well with the cheese. The two older wines will merit separate entries, since the second tasting of the 1962 yielded completely different impressions to the first!
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