Dominio de Pingus 2022 'Pingus' Ribera Del Duero DO

Dominio de Pingus 2022 'Pingus' Ribera Del Duero DO

Item Number: 21534

UPC: None

Country: Spain
Region: Castilla y Leon
Sub Region: Ribera del Duero
Appellation/AVA: Ribera del Duero DO
Estate Grown Wine: Yes
Vintage: 2022
Grape(s): 100% Tempranillo
Type: Wine - Red
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 3
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 15
Viticulture: Practicing Biodynamic

While other Spanish wines have achieved international recognition, Pingus is one of the very few that has joined the ranks of the world’s most coveted wines. There is no other wine in the world, let alone Spain, that is quite like Pingus, and that singularity is one of the fundamental requirements for great wine. It balances otherworldly richness with a rare sense of elegance.

Vineyard Notes: Planted in 1929 in La Horra, Ribera del Duero

Winemaking Notes: The grapes are 100% destemmed. Pingus ferments with native yeast in open-top wood tanks. It ages for 20 months in 2nd passage barrels with minimal rackings. Peter credits 15+ years of biodynamic farming for Pingus’ unique texture and personality, and for allowing him to cut the percentage of new wood employed to zero. The wine is not fined or filtered before bottling. The addition of sulfites is as low as possible and changes depending on vintage.

Reviews

  • The Wine Advocate
    Rating: 98-100 (6/13/2024)
    Tasting a new vintage of Pingus for the first time is a special moment, and the 2022 Pingus shows the gentler profile of the vintage—it's perfumed, fruit-driven and peachy, with perfume and elegance. Peter Sisseck told me that it's his favorite vintage, because it's more the idea he has for this wine. He compared it to 2000 ("a vintage under the radar," he told me) and 1996. This aged exclusively in barrel; some vintages age for a while in 2,000- and 1,500-liter oak foudres, which was the case for the 2021, 2020 and 2018 but not in 2022. "I liked the evolution of the wine in barrel so much that I left it there the whole time," Sisseck explained. It's young and tender, ripe and juicy, with some spicy notes but with very good freshness and balance.