Wine & Soul Vinho Tinto Pintas 2016 sku_2333546 cheeses and pasta with well

cheeses and pasta with well spiced sauces

followed by delicate notes of roasted coffee and cinnamon bark

melon and Frangipane

The wine has great concentration with bright flavors of blackberry

Wine & Soul Vinho Tinto Pintas 2016 sku_2333546 cheeses and pasta with wellThe 2016 Pintas is a field blend from old vines aged for 20 months in 30% new French oak. It comes in at 14% alcohol. Not quite bottled when seen, this was out of cask and the final blend. Aggressive in its youth, this also seems wonderfully fresh, with enticing and lifted fruit, plus a big, lingering finish filled with flavor. Very tight, this is going to need a couple of years to come aroundand much longer to acquire complexitybut the tannins are