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92% Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) 8% Garnacha. Made by Peter Sisseck and the Pingus team but in a separate winery incorporated as Bodegas y Viñedos Alnardo. Dark crimson. So earthy on the nose after the DRC 2020s I have just been tasting! Real grip and complexity of herby fruit. There is something like garrigue here as well as a mass of black fruit and the freshness of altitude. Dry finish and some tannin evident. Definitely not to be drunk without food! But what an impact for the money … Sweet, long, jewel-bright finish. (JR)
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Jancis Robinson MW
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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The 2019 PSI combines their knowledge of the vineyards and their new winery. They learned a lot in 2018, a more heterogeneous vintage, and their sorting machine for grapes had to work a lot. 2019 was more homogeneous, an easier harvest when most people made better wine. In the winery, they invested in a simple building but top technology. They used some 10% Garnacha in the blend, which was done one year after aging the lots separately. It really reminds me of the young wines from Ribera del Duero from the early 1990s, with some aromas of orange peel, earthy and smoky (very mild) and with fine-grained tannins. It has good ripeness at 14% alcohol and integrated acidity but great balance. It showcases the style of the 2019s here, fresher than expected and still a sunny vintage, when 2018 was more crystalline. A triumph over the natural conditions of the year. They finally bottled the expected 345,000 bottles. It was bottled in July 2021.