07 Gran Feudo Rosado, Bodegas Julián Chivite, 100% Garnacha, Navarra
SCENE: I am in the kitchen of the apartment I share with my boyfriend, the Mathematician. We are eating a lovely summery dinner I’ve prepared of poached salmon, patty pan squash and caprese salad.
ME: Want to help me taste the next bottle in my Toro wine [...]

‘07 Cortijo III Rose, Garnacha/Tempranillo Blend, Rioja $22 

We’ve passed those novelty days of summer, when the first balmy breezes seem a refreshing counterpoint to, you know, winter. Now it’s just Boston in July: hot on most days, sure, but more specifically, humid. I swim through it to crack open bottle #3 on the Tour-o-Toro, the [...]

This wine is a special and rare find. We didn’t even know they made Txakoli rose, then one day, there it was! Like absinthe before legalization, or jamon from the mythical pata negra pig, or a chupacabra, sitting right there beside me at briefing.
Txakoli is a slightly effervescent, usually white wine made in three subregions [...]

‘07 Muga Rose, Garnacha/Tempranillo/Viura, Rioja 28

Ah, the Muga Rosé (Rosado en Espanol). I don’t think I could have picked a better inaugural bottle for this project. It’s a delicious, easy drinking rosé (perfect for the heat wave that has had the city under siege for the past week), a [...]

I am going to drink every bottle of wine on the Toro wine list.
One of the great privileges of employment at Toro ( 1704 Washington St, Boston, MA) is that we’re allowed to buy any of the non-reserve wines from the list at cost. Talking about the wine list and recommending bottles to guests is [...]