Pintia 2019

Name: Pintia, Tempos Vega Sicilia 2019
Brand: Vega Sicilia
SKU: 30085749
Price: 350.42 GBP
Availability: InStock

Vega Sicilia

2019

Wines Anteprima Red Fine Wine

Founded in 1864 by Don Eloy Lecanda y Chaves who planted the first Bordeaux grapes on the land, Vega Sicilia is Spain’s most prestigious wine estate. Since 1982, the winery has been in the hands of the Alvarez family who played a major role in building Ribera del Duero’s reputation. They own 210ha of vines, some of which are over hundred years old, which thrives on a unique terroir. Their meticulous care in both vineyards and cellar gave birth to Unico, their flagship, which is known as Spain's “first growth”.

Pintia is sourced from the banks of the River Duero, within the Toro DO. The extremely cold winters and hot summers influence its complex soils, which are characterised by pebbles. Aged in French and American oak barrels for 12 months, the wine is deep with great intensity of fruit and offers a good tannic structure and a very friendly, fresh and persistent palate.

The 2019 vintage was hot and dry, with rain before harvest helping to tame the powerful skins. 15% of the wine aged in large containers to preserve its fruitiness. It was a vintage of great concentration, so the influence of toasted oak was limited in favour of freshness.

Ratings

94 Points Robert Parker

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 in stainless steel and oak vats with indigenous yeasts. 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 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.

95 Points James Suckling

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

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Spain

Grape vines have been grown on the Iberian Peninsula since at least 3000 B.C., although it was not until 1000 B.C. that winemaking began here in earnest – a skill brought by Phoenician traders from the eastern Mediterranean. Today, Spain is home to more vines than any other country on Earth, and has a national wine output exceeded only by France and Italy.

All seventeen of Spain's administrative regions (communidades autónomas) produce wine to some extent, including the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands. The greatest concentration of vineyards is in Castilla-La Mancha, but the finest and most famous wines come from Galicia (Rias Baixas), Catalonia (Cava and Priorat), Andalucia (Sherry), Castilla y Leon (Rueda, Toro and Ribera del Duero) and of course Rioja.

Geography and climate together play a fundamental role in defining Spain's many wine styles. From cool, green Galicia and the snow-capped Pyrenees in the north, via the parched central plateau, to sandy, sunny Andalucia in the south, the Spanish landscape is very diverse. The country spans seven degrees of latitude (36°N to 43°N), leaving 500 miles (800km) between its Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.

The key red-wine varieties, in order of acreage, are Tempranillo, Bobal, Garnacha and Monastrell. The leading white-wine varieties are Airen, Viura/Macabeo and Palomino and Albarino. 'International' varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc are becoming more and more popular in Spain, and their plantings are rising in various Spanish regions. Along with the most popular varieties, there are regional specialties, such as Hondarrabi Zuri in the Basque Country, Marmajuelo in the Canary Islands and Zalema in Andalucia.