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  • Country ranking ?

    27
  • Producer ranking ?

    7
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035

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The Story

Dominio de Pingus was established in 1995 by Danish winemaker Peter Sisseck. It is situated in the La Horra area of the Ribera del Duero region. The wine produced, Pingus, is considered a "cult wine", sold at extremely high prices while remaining very inaccessible.

On the estate's winemaking philosophies, Sisseck has stated, "The vines in my plots are very old. They have never been fertilised nor treated with pesticides and all grow followi...

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Vintage 2017

SPAIN 2017 Vintage  /Extreme weather was seen across the wine world in 2017 and Spain was no exception. For most Spanish regions there were one or more climatic challenges to contend with including spring frost, drought, untypically high summer temperatures and occasional hail storms. Then, mercifully, the going got easier as more typical weather arrived for the August and September ripening period and generally very favourable harvest conditi...

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Origin

Castile-León, Ribera del Duero

Inside Information

Without a doubt one of Spain's most famous winemakers. Peter Sisseck, of Danish origin, came to the then relatively unknown Ribera del Duero in the mid-90s as an oenologist. He had received his training from the innovators from Bordeaux (the so-called “vins de garage”) and knew better than anyone the potential of the Tinto Fino grape in this region. For a long time, Peter Sisseck vinified with his friend Pedro Cuadrado of Finca Villacreces – and until 2003 the grapes for the Flor de Pingus also came from this domain. Recently he has built his own installations not so far from Villacreces in Quintanilla.

Pingus is a cult wine that is vinified to a very limited extent. The first vintage was still vinified on the Villacreces domain in the 1990s. Very deep in colour, almost inky black. Complex, closed, after some rolling, the bouquet opens up and gives both concentrated fruit impressions of cherry and red currant. Vanilla notes in the background, leather and volatile tannins of its youthfulness. The totality of the fragrances is underpinned by responsible barrel maturation. Juicy, flavorful.

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