PINTIA Tempos Vega Sicilia - Toro 2016 Bottle (Tinta de Toro)

Description

The 2016 Pintia is a bold, expressive Toro, brimming with ripe blackcurrant, blackberry, and plum notes. Layers of spice, licorice, and subtle mineral hints add complexity. Smooth tannins and lively acidity balance the rich fruit, creating a warm, velvety texture. Elegant and powerful, this vintage offers immediate pleasure with great potential for further development, showcasing Pintia’s signature depth and refinement.

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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