Pintia

Pintia
Spain
Toro
2019

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 6/1.5L and 6/375ml

Climactically, Toro has always been a difficult region, with harsh winters and scorching summers making it tough for even the most experienced vignerons to keep their vines healthy and producing balanced wines. 2019 was a particulary challenging year as temperatures soared during the summer, and rainfall was minimal. For that reasons a larger part of the wine was made in stainless steel in order to preserve freshness, and The wine was aged in French and American oak barrels for 12 months.

95 points
"Ripe blackberries, tar, dark cherries and dark spices. Fine cocoa powder, too. Rich and full-bodied on the palate with a saline smack to the middle. Very long and powerful but expressive and refined. A little richer and more powerful than 2018, but elegant and poised at the same time. Vertical, fine-grained tannins. Drink from 2026."
Zekun Shuai,
James Suckling
November 15, 2023
94 points
"The wine released in 2024 is the 2019 Pintia, from a very dry year when they did a softer vinification and used some 15% stainless steel for the élevage to keep the fruit and freshness. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel and oak vats. It's a powerful year; the wine has 15% alcohol and is round and full-bodied. It's a heady and ripe Pintia. They had to be careful with the harvest date, and they harvested early and quite quickly. Even though the wine is ripe and heady, with notes of grenadine and small ripe berries, it's also exotic and spicy, quite showy, lush and full-bodied, with the 2019 tannins. It's a more powerful wine that is going to require patience. They produced 224,724 bottles, 6,587 magnums and some smaller and larger sizes. It was bottled in May 2021."
Luis Gutiérrez,
Wine Advocate
Jun 13, 2024
92 points
"Pintia believes in early picking for freshness, which in this hot year can only have helped. The texture is lovely and the tannins perfectly integrated. It is very well balanced in a lowacid way, all wrapped in raw silk with a firm edge"
Tim Atkin,
Tim Atkin
Special Toro Report 2024

SKU/Code: 
DB7515-19
Product Line: 
Wine
Red
Varietal: 
Tempranillo