The wine of the DO Toro, "main food ambassador of Zamora"

The Designation of Origin commemorates its thirtieth anniversary with the presentation of its wines in the cloister of the Palacio de la Diputación.

The Designation of Origin (DO) Toro continues toasting for the thirty anniversary of its constitution, in 1987. On the occasion of the anniversary, thirty wineries of the Designation presented their wines yesterday before professionals of the hotel industry, restarurants business and sommeliers in the cloister of the Provincial Council of Zamora. A place "without comparison", in the words of the president of the desgnation, Felipe Nalda, who was grateful with the reception in the city. "We owed something to Zamora capital, it deserved it," he confessed during the inauguration of the event.

The president of the Designation also stated that the city constitutes a "great market niche" and its people act as "ambassadors of its wines in the national and international scope". In this sense, Nalda thanked the support during these three decades of professionals and enthusiasts of the sector, restaurateurs, sommeliers, managers of supermarkets, wine bars and a long list of friends in addition to the "profane people who make wine theirs" every day . In the same line, the president of the Council de Zamora, Mayte Martín Pozo assured that the wine of the Toro Designation of Origin stands as "main food ambassador of Zamora", without detriment to the twelve remaining products that make up the brand of quality promoted by the Council of Zamora. The export of 35% of their wines is one of the reasons that justify, in the opinion of the president of the Provincial Institution, the longed Wine Route whose certification by the Spanish Association of Wine Cities (Acevin) could be achieved this year after the constitution in the last weeks of the association that will promote the wine tourism tour.

Looking back, Nalda extolled the work done by the seven pioneering wineries that wanted to make "something bigger" for the wine of the region which was initially labelled as "a black wine, hard, consistent, that can be marked with knife and fork ". However, as pointed out by the expert winemaker, new technologies have allowed "taming it" to offer "a kind and serious product with a special taste that leaves no one indifferent to anyone who tastes it."

Nowadays, the Designation encompasses 63 wineries and has sales of more than twelve million bottles per year of the four authorized grape varieties: two white (Malvasía and Verdejo) and two Red (Tinta de Toro and Red Grenache). These data justify the festive atmosphere of the meeting held yesterday despite the short harvest of this year due to extreme drought. The event is added to the activities promoted during this year by the Regulating Council such as the Vintoro Rock Festival, the Cross Enotoro Triathlon or the VintoroBike in order to celebrate the thirty years of the Designation.