PINTIA Tempos Vega Sicilia - Toro 2018 Bottle (Tinta de Toro)

Description

The 2018 Pintia is a compelling Toro, showcasing ripe black fruits, blackberry, cassis, and plum, interwoven with hints of spice, graphite, and minerality. Silky tannins and lively acidity lend finesse and balance, while the depth of flavor and concentration promise excellent ageing potential. Elegant yet powerful, this vintage embodies Pintia’s signature structure and complexity, offering both immediate enjoyment and long-term evolution.

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Drink Date: 2020 - 2026 - The 2016 Pintia comes from a cooler but drier vintage, and the wine has a little less alcohol and more freshness. It fermented in oak vats and matured in mostly new and mostly French oak, but this year they used a little more American oak with the idea to increase density. 2016 was an atypical year in Toro; they had plenty of time to pick the grapes with lower alcohol and wines with more elegance. This is clearly a more elegant vintage than 2015. The wine has some notes that took me to the Northern Rhône, and the oak is neatly integrated—it seems to get better integrated in cooler years. There is a mix of black and red fruit that denotes good freshness. The palate is medium-bodied, with a distinct lack of rusticity and density, and it's more fluid. It has abundant, chalky and fine-grained tannins and a supple, long and dry finish. 230,032 bottles, 6,517 magnums and some larger formats were produced. It was bottled in May 2018. - Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez