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Pintia 2013 75cl

DO | Castilla y León | Spain
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93 By Robert Parker
The challenge in Toro is to achieve the elegance usually linked with the name of Vega Sicilia, and with the 2013 Pintia, it's achieved by fine-tuning the harvest date to maintain the freshness of aromas and acidity of the wine. The grapes were picked between September 26th and October 10th and fermented after a cold soak. Malolactic occurred in 70% French barrels, 25% American oak and the remaining 5% in Hungarian barriques. It's a more elegant year for Pintia, as cooler vintages usually help counterbalance the natural power of Toro. It's also a lighter year with good freshness, and this showed a fine thread on the palate and was nicely textured, elegance within the rusticity of the zone. It was bottled in April 2015. 149,449 bottles, 5,558 magnums and some larger formats were produced.
Producer
Bodegas Pintia
Ribera del Duero’s most famous estate, Vega Sicilia, established a new Toro located winery in 1997 called Pintia. Upon acquiring 100 hectares of old Tinto de Toro vines, just about one hundred kilometers downstream from their other estates, the Álvarez family choose San Román de Hornija as the home of Pintia. In the beginning years, they experimented with several viticulture and viniculture techniques to unveil the true potential of Toro. Finally, in aims to preserve the wildness that Toro vines offer, they decided on a style that would conserve the fruitiness of the grape, while creating the most elegant wines of the appellation. Today, heading the new generation of Toro wines, the estate only produces one wine, fittingly named Pintia. It is a sophisticated hand-harvested pure Tempranillo that is both rich and intense.