Community Tasting Notes 22

• ppandian Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 1, 2024 - New Year’s day, paired with grilled tenderloin.
  This bottle unfortunately was a little past its peak. Black and blue fruits and black currants but receding fruit profile. Good tannic backbone holding it all together.
  Perfectly sealed and intact cork.

• ShadowIII Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 20, 2023 - dark currants, black fruits, spice, vanilla beans, leather, moderate tannins, long finish, bigger, more complex than the 1996 Flor

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• englishman's claret wrote:

  November 7, 2022 - The 1996 Pingus is a handsome wine, dark, sweet black fruit and clove filling the glass. Really deep, rich, saturating palate but definitely staying on the right side of the extraction line. Drinking well now, but ageless.

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• aquacongas Likes this wine: 97 points

  February 19, 2022 - not blind, side by side with the Pingus 1996, both from perfect bottles
  
  I preferred the 95, more Bordeaux style. 96 more Californian and lush style. Most in the group preferred the 96.
  1995 still firm tannins, good acidity structure. Some aging signs but nicely balanced. The 1996 feels fresher but not that complex.
  Both wines didn't reach their peak but close to it.

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• joshabramson wrote: flawed

  October 24, 2021 - Ugh, heat damage. Still drinkable but not great.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Dominio Pingus
• Varietal Tempranillo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Ribera del Duero

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• Pending Delivery 4 (1%)
• In Cellars 215 (59%)
• Consumed 148 (40%)

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