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The wine
- Colour
- Rosso
- Alcohol
- 12.5% vol
Critics' scores
- Robert Parker / Wine Advocate 94
The 2014 Pintia matured in 75% French and 25% American oak barrels for approximately one and a half years. It is a slightly riper year than 2013, and the wine is more powerful but at the same time I found it extremely aromatic, expressive and open, quite typical from Toro. It is a more elegant style, with less rusticity, and the tannins are fine-grained, present and quite abundant but also quite round. It has a great mouthfeel, with the wild berry, aromatic herbs and spicy flavors lingering in your mouth. This is a great vintage for Pintia. With time in the glass, it still shows some smoky undertones that make it feel quite young. 177,477 bottles and some larger formats produced. It was bottled in April 2016.
The 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.