Winemaker Notes
This wine is very special, with a complexity that makes it different from the rest of wines at the winery. The Pino is made from a single "Bobal vineyard". The wine has a magnificent and minerally personality because it grows on solid rock. With aromas of gypsum and wet chalk, the palate shows great acidity and dried rose petal notes, finishing with a delightful balsamic taste.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Pino has an unusually low alcoholic degree, 12.5%, but the wine keeps the power, depth and energy from other vintages. This is usually a darker wine with notes of black cherries and pine needles, serious and a little earthy. In the past, it was a bit hard, but nowadays it's more elegant but keeps the depth and with a long aftertaste. This year, it was harvested very early, to avoid the rains, and it had a soft extraction that gave it a more elegant profile.
Bobal is enjoying a mini renaissance in Spain today as high-elevation vineyards in its homeland of Utiel-Requena produce dense and velvety wines dominated by dark berry and cocoa characteristics. However, its function as Spain’s second most planted red grape variety was once only for bulk wine and concentrate. Since it is drought-resistant, it does well grown as unirrigated bush vines and acts as a fine voice of terroir. Somm Secret—Bobal also shows great potential for rosé and sparkling wines because of its high levels of acidity and anthocyanins.
The Moors gave it the name, ‘Manxa,’ which fittingly means ‘parched earth.’ La Mancha, the largest Spanish wine producing region in all of Spain, is one of its hottest and driest. Sturdy and drought-resistant white varieietes like Airen, Viura and Verdejo thrive in this environment.