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2015 Bodegas Pintia, Toro, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Luis Gutiérrez
94+/100
James Suckling
95/100
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2015 Bodegas Pintia, Toro, Spain

Description

Wow. 2015 has produced a serious Pintia, all in check and with perfect precision. The nose is amazing with lifted spice and black cherry fruit supported by an underlying core of sweet raspberry coulis. A tight, lean note of savoury minerality runs, rapier-like, through the palate and there is no hint of over-maturation or typical Toro solidity here. The tannins are plentiful but fine, like powder, leaving just a light coating on the tongue and the wine is so beautifully balanced. This is a seamless, harmonious vintage of Pintia, perfectly judged, impressively executed and utterly stunning. Drink 2021-2035.
Catriona Felstead MW, Spain Buyer 
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Alcohol % 15
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Full Bodied
Property Bodegas Pintia

Critics reviews

Luis Gutiérrez 94+/100
The only wine produced here is the 2015 Pintia, which, in the warm and dry 2015, reaches 15% alcohol and has moderate acidity and a creamy, soft texture, with plenty of concentration, ripeness and tannins. It fermented in oak vats and matured in oak barrels (new and used, French and American) for 12 months. It was a powerful vintage, and they did part of the malolactic fermentation in oak vats instead of 100% in barrique to keep some of the freshness, and they also have 15,000 liters of wine that can mature in stainless steel and rotate some lots in vat before they are put in barrique. All this goes in the direction of keeping the freshness of the wine in a zone where power comes naturally, and all the tools are welcomed, including the use of different toast in the barrels. All this seems to have paid off, and even if the wine is powerful and tannic, it has good balance and the tannins are fine-grained. This has reached a good balance between power and elegance. Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate (December 2019)
Luis Gutiérrez, RobertParker.com (Dec 2019)
James Suckling 95/100
A very structured and intense Pintia with lots of blackberry, chocolate and cedar character. Full body. Yet, it’s more refined than in past vintages. One of the more balanced bottlings from this winery. Delicious already. Available in 2020. Better after 2021.   james_suckling (December 2019)
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Dec 2019)

About this wine

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.

Bodegas Pintia

Vega Sicilia’s owners, the Álvarez family, bought Bodegas Pintia in 1996, attracted to the galet-strewn terroir in the northern Spanish region of Toro, the rich clay subsoils and the familiar altitude. They decided to produce an alternative expression of Vega Sicilia’s style of Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) from this site. Toro’s main point of difference to Ribera del Duero is the ambient temperature, which can blaze in the height of summer. The challenge here is to match concentration with elegance, a challenge met by Bodegas Pintia with no shortage of aplomb.

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