Wine & Soul Pintas Character

Wine & Soul Pintas Character

Wine Description

Pintas Character is made from a field blend of 30 different varieties from the 45-year old Vale de Mendiz vineyard adjacent to the 85-year old Pintas vineyard. Some of the varieties are the indigenous Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and Touriga Nacional. The wine is fermented in traditional granite lagares and aged for 18 months in 50% new and 50% second-passage French oak barriques.

Wine and Soul Jorge and Sandra Tavares
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Acclaim
“Acting as a second wine for the producer’s Pintas, this bottling has a softer aspect at this young stage. It is juicy, with ripe blackberry fruits and good acidity that cuts through the tannins.”
— Wine Enthusiast, Dec 2022
“The 2019 Pintas Character is a field blend (over 30 grapes, but the majority are Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional) from old vines aged for 18 months in 90% used French oak. It comes in at 14.6% alcohol. As always, the Pintas Character is not quite as powerful or as concentrated as its big brother, Pintas, but this easygoing red has more going on than seems apparent on first pour. Coming back to this after half an hour helped a lot. At that point, it showed off its structure. It features ripe tannins but a firm finish. Then, the fruit also evolved, becoming very expressive. Both approachable and serious, this year's version of Character should age pretty well. It is drinking decently now, but it can still improve over the next few years. It does need to demonstrate it can do that, but it's so appealing today that it's worth leaning up for the moment.”
— Wine Advocate, Dec 2021
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Vineyard & Production Info
Vineyard name
The Vale de Mendiz vineyard
Vineyard size
30 acres
Soil composition
Schist
Training method
Bush
Elevation:
990-1,320 feet
Vines/acre:
2,000
Yield/acre:
1.6 tons
Exposure:
Northern / Southern
Year vineyard planted:
1970
Harvest time:
September
First vintage of this wine:
2005
Bottles produced of this wine:
5,500
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Winemaking & Aging
Maceration length:
10
Varietal composition:
Field Blend
Fermentation container:
Stone lagares
Length of alcoholic fermentation:
10 days
Fermentation temperature:
75 °F
Maceration technique:
Foot-trodden
Malolactic fermentation:
Yes
Type of aging container:
Barrels
Size of aging container:
225 L
Type of oak:
French
Length of aging before bottling:
18 months
Age of Aging Container:
New-One year
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Analytical Data
pH level:
3.53
Acidity:
6.0 g/L
Alcohol:
14.5 %
Dry extract:
35.2 g/L
Residual sugar:
0.6 g/L
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Wine Production

The harvest was planned for the second week of September in perfect weather conditions. All grapes previously selected and de-stemmed were foot trodden in stone lagares during the fermentation process (10 days). The aging and malolactic fermentation was developed in french oak barrels for 18 months.