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2015 Bodegas Pintia, Toro, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Not ready
Product: 20151135479
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
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Full Bodied
Producer Bodegas Pintia

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.
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Toro

Toro

The wine region of Toro is a predominantly red-wine appellation in Castilla y León in north-western Spain. The region produces red wine across the spectrum from Joven to Gran Reserva, but all grades must be made from at least 75 percent Tinta de Toro. The best reds tend to contain 100 percent Tinta de Toro and are robust, concentrated and well-structured.
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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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