Red Wine

Pintas

Wine & Soul 2022, 75cl

Douro DOC

Pintas

“Our main goal is to create wines that express the full character of the old vines and indigenous grape varieties of the Douro, seeking balance between concentration, complexity, and elegance.”

Pintas Tinto is born from a unique 92-year-old plot with around 40 indigenous Douro grape varieties, located in the Pinhão Valley.

REGION: Douro DOC.
SUB-REGION: Cima Corgo, Pinhão Valley, Vale de Mendiz.

VINIFICATION: The harvest took place under perfect atmospheric conditions on September 1st. The grapes, meticulously selected and destemmed, were fermented in lagars with foot treading for 10 days. The aging and malolactic fermentation took place in French oak barrels for 20 months.

ANALYTICAL DATA:
Total Acidity: 5.3 g/l (Tartaric Acid) | Volatile Acidity: 0.6 g/l (Acetic Acid) | pH: 3.74 | Dry Extract: 34.6 g/l | Total Sugars: < 1 g/l

Awards

97/100 – Robert Parker (2019 harvest)
94/100 – Wine Spectator (2018 harvest)
95/100 – Robert Parker (2018 harvest)
19/20 – Grandes Escolhas Magazine (2018 harvest)
18.5/20 – Revista de Vinhos – A Essência do Vinho (2018 harvest)
Best of Portugal Awards – Revista de Vinhos – A Essência do Vinho (2018 harvest)
17.5/18 – Lars Daniels (2018 harvest)
18/20 – Julia Harding (2018 harvest)
94/100 – Wine Enthusiast (2018 harvest)
9/100 – Wine and Spirits (2018 harvest)

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

Wine & Soul

When in 2001 we, Sandra Tavares da Silva and Jorge Serôdio Borges, started our journey to make our own wine we had neither vineyards… nor wine. All we had was a dream, a vision, a project in common that would embrace our life as a couple. It&cute;s easy to understand why we named our company ‘Wine&Soul’ a project that we put our heart and soul into, warm and personal wines that symbolize our life.

We started making a garage wine we called ‘Pintas’ (spots), a single vineyard red wine that derives from a very old vineyard, a traditional Douro old vineyard mixed planting that holds over thirty varieties together. We wanted to make a full bodied wine, a wild and vertiginous wine that would parade and illustrate the flair and colossal landscape of the Douro Valley. Pintas just shows the best version of the Douro, that voluptuous fruit of the Douro, the raciness, the enthusiasm and the perfect balance of the long and lasting finish.

Later we came up with the remaining wines of our portfolio, the red Pintas Character, an easier more fruit driven version of Pintas, the white Guru, a single vineyard white we source from the high altitude vineyards, Vintage Port Pintas and our very special 5G Port Wine, a very, very old Tawny Port that comes as a blend of several very old Port wines, most of them over a hundred years old Ports.

In 2009 we inherited Quinta da Manuella, a fabulous estate planted mainly with very old vineyards, south oriented, some of them over an hundred years old. Some blocks younger, over thirty years old and did start new plantings since we received this estate in 2009. Our very first wine from our ‘youngest’ property, Quinta da Manoella Vinhas Velhas, quickly became one of the best and most remarkable wines in the Douro.

Wine&Soul has embodied the spirit of the new wave of high quality and strong individuality Douro wines sourced from very old individual vineyards, low yields limited production wines that showcase the character of each particular vineyard, the very special nature of each unique terroir. Wines made with a minimal winemaking intervention giving way for nature and terroir to take the lead and speak for themselves.

Over the years we have looked for old traditional vineyards, preferably the ones who traditionally have been used to make outstanding Vintage Port. We do believe in the close association and strong correlation between Port and Douro wines and we are keen to demonstrate that the best Port wine vineyards are equally the very best vineyards for the greatest Douro wines.

Address

Wine & Soul

Av.Júlio de Freitas
Vale de Mendiz
5085-101 Pinhão
Portugal