In the wine world, 15 or 20 years are not much, much less to build a brand with a global impact. But sometimes a harvest is enough to reach the status of myth, of legend. Pingus wine is an example of such a phenomenon, building its fame with an adventure where luck and chance combine with work, inspiration and talent. Peter Sisseck, nicknamed Pingus, founded the Domain of Pingus in 1995. An agronomist born in 1962 in Denmark, he worked in Bordeaux and California before settling in Spain in 1990. He located 5 hectares of very old vineyards in Tempranillo and founded the winery, in the province of Burgos, in full Ribera del Duero. The secret of wine is Sisseck’s obsession with quality. Among the several vineyards, the youngest is 50 years old and the oldest are over 70 years old. Once harvested, the destemming is done manually, bago a bago, choosing only the most mature grapes. The wine is prepared with minimal intervention and manipulation and bottled after 20 to 33 months in French oak barrels, without clarification or filtration, to better maintain its natural qualities. The result is an extraordinary, concentrated, powerful red with very ripe fruit but always with an impressive balance and unmatched elegance and softness. The old vines have this characteristic, their deep roots spread on the ground and they can extract from the earth the components that confer great complexity and great depth, while maintaining the balance between alcohol, acidity and, above all, silky texture.
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