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2016 Bodegas Pintia, Toro, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Ready - youthful
Product: 20161135479
2016 Bodegas Pintia, Toro, Spain

Description

Pintia is one of those hidden gems in Toro, Spain that excels year in year out and yet many have still not heard or are aware of this excellent wine.? A dry and cool year the wine really stands out for its class, precision and freshness.? It has a lovely aroma of dark fruit on the nose with a hint of garrigue and minerality that makes me think of an Old-world Syrah.? The palate is medium bodied , with fine filagree tannins exhibiting a precision and tension that is sometimes missing in hotter years, whereby the fruit has a little more rusticity.? The whole wine has elevated itself, it’s a more focussed beauty than previous vintages. Recent renovations in the Pintia cellars are hopefully part to blame and lets hope this continues. ?A fantastic showing for this wine or should I say “an awful wine – don’t tell anyone about it!”, whilst treating yourself to a case!

Drink 2025 – 2030+

Stuart Rae, Buying Commercial Manager (Private Accounts), Berry Bros. & Rudd (February 2021)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Maturity Ready - youthful
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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