Reviews
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. -
-James Suckling -
-Wine Spectator -
Technical Details
- 100% Tempranillo
- Javier Ausás
- Spain
- Castilla y León
- Ribera del Duero
- San Román de Hornija, Pedrosa del Rey
- Organic Practices
- 75% French oak, 25% American oak
- 19 months
- 14.5%
- 19,169 cases
Vega Sicilia Pintia Toro 2016
Organic Practices
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Vega Sicilia was founded in 1864 and is widely regarded as Spain's first great fine wine estate – the property that put Ribera del Duero on the map decades before the region had any international recognition. Pintia is the family's expression from the neighboring Toro region, carrying the same rigor and reputation into a more accessible wine.
Made from 100% Tinta de Toro, the 2016 came from a cooler, drier growing season that left the wine with a little less alcohol and more freshness – a noticeably more elegant expression than others, with a mix of black and red fruit and fine, chalky tannins on a long and dry finish. Well under a case left; don't wait!