100% Tinta de Toro, a local strain of Tempranillo. With small berries and thick skins, Tinta de Toro can withstand the intensely hot, dry summers of Toro's climate.
Pintia has been going through a transformation in the last couple of years. The wine is a bit less extracted and not all of it goes through malolactic in oak. The results have been delightful, with the wine showing the power of Toro and yet great elegance and freshness. The 2017 Pintia is ripe, juicy, round and powerful at 15% alcohol. It matures in new and used oak barrels for 12 months.
Aromas of violets, tart red fruits, and forest floor. On the palate, plummy baked dark fruit, hints of cedar, and a distant smoke on the horizon. A powerful, seductive wine that speaks volumes of its unique terroir.
Just like the vines, Toro's wineries have themselves needed to adapt to the conditions so they can express this remarkable place in a more refined way. Grapes arriving at Pintia are immediately chilled, and a cold maceration takes place before fermentation, which itself is kept cooler than the fermentations at the Vega Sicilia properties in Ribera del Duero, all to favor fresh fruit character over what could otherwise be overbearing tannin.
