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2018 Bodegas Pintia, Toro, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Not ready
Product: 20181135479
2018 Bodegas Pintia, Toro, Spain

Description

Coming from fairly high altitude, this Spanish red from the Toro region is ethereal, perhaps lighter than you would expect. It is still robust and full, but more delicate, more perfumed with an abundance of incredibly precise blueberry fruit. The oak on this wine is present, but it is well integrated and welcomed. Adding a touch of spice there is a warming character that becomes apparent on the palate. The word smooth comes to mind. This wine is well integrated and very well made.

Drink 2023 - 2030

Luke Dowdy, Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd (January 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
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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