Toro DO El Primer Paso 2023 - Dominio del Bendito

About the wine

Antony Terryn is not just any winemaker in Toro, no, he is the most rebellious of all. We drive into the vines and on the way there he doesn't stop explaining to me what's wrong in the Toro wine region. The big construction companies, which buy up old vines over a large area, clear and mine the valuable sand, are bothering him the most. This inevitably leads to impoverishment, whether in terms of landscape or culture. But Antony fights back where he can and tries to buy old vines that are still rooted in order to do justice to Toro wine. He doesn't care about young plants; he can plant them himself, he explains to me. And that's what he does. He clones his old plants, which are up to 100 years old, and replants them properly.