PINGUS 2017

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Commentaire de Peter Sisseck mai 2017
Peter Sisseck, May 2017: “The 2017 will be remembered for the frost that hit us late April. But it was not just the frost, the drought caused by the a very dry winter made it very difficult for the vines to recover. The rest of the growing season was relatively trouble free apart from the ongoing draught condition leading up to a very early harvest in general. Pingus it self was less hit by frost due to the wind machines we have installed since 2007 (another frost year) They made it possible to “safe” 76 % of a normal harvest – 19 barrels of normal 25 . We could not be more happy with the quality of the wines but of course very sad that we have so few bottles.”

Luis Gutiérrez 96 points www.robertparker.com
Because of very low yields and a warm and dry season, the 2017 Flor de Pingus was produced from very concentrated grapes with lots of tannin, so they had to do a very soft vinification and an extended élevage, being very careful not to dry out the wine. So, they used less new oak barrels, and the wine was alternatively in barrique and stainless steel, trying to polish the tannins and keep the juiciness and avoid excessive tannins. So, the wine is polished, more than it usually is. It’s ripe but without the perfect ripeness of a great vintage. It has character, in a somehow more baroque way. Peter Sisseck compared it to other vintages finished in seven: 1997, 2007. They only produced some 60,000 bottles, when the normal production should have been around 100,000 bottles, which means they lost some 40% of the crop because of the frost. It was bottled in July 2019, later than in other vintages.