PSI Pingus -Bodegas y Viñedos Alnardo - 2021

150 cl

Robert Parker: 93 points

Alcohol content: 14.5 % vol.

Grape varieties: 90% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha

Vinification:

Fermentation with juicy yeasts in concrete vats. Maturation in concrete, large oak barrels and French oak barriques. The wine is bottled unfiltered and unclarified.

Tasting note:

The bottled 2021 PSI is a little reserved and closed, the most backward of the 2021s - it's even a little reductive. In 2021, he decided to buy some of the vineyards. Until then, he bought the grapes from these old vineyards, but most of the winegrowers who cultivate these vineyards are also old and some can no longer work. So the solution is to buy their vineyards, which is also an administrative problem as the ownership and legal aspects of these vineyards are sometimes not clear. He now owns 50 hectares, with the idea of owning 100 hectares of the 200 hectares they use for wine. This also means a change, as he needs more people to work in the vineyards, tractor drivers and so on. "It's a lot of work," he told me, "but it's a lot of fun." The wine needs time to open up; the nose is hard to read, but the palate is much better. It has a medium to full body and tannins that are much more elegant and polished, refined and precise than in the first vintages, and it has gained seriousness.

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