DEN STORE PINGUS RØDVIN FRA PETER SISSECK!
Her får du den meget berømte rødvin Pingus 2022, som bekendt laves af den danske vinmager Peter Sisseck på hans ejendom Dominio de Pingus i det populære Ribera del Duero i Spanien. Han fremstiller kun cirka 6000 flasker om året af denne topvin, og priserne for en flaske ligger typisk på mellem 8000 og 10.000 kr. alt efter årgang og anmeldelser.
75 cl.
SOM ALTID! - TOPANMELDT AF ROBERT PARKER:
Tasting a new vintage of Pingus for the first time is a special moment, and the 2022 Pingus shows the gentler profile of the vintage—it's perfumed, fruit-driven and peachy, with perfume and elegance. Peter Sisseck told me that it's his favorite vintage, because it's more the idea he has for this wine. He compared it to 2000 ("a vintage under the radar," he told me) and 1996. This aged exclusively in barrel; some vintages age for a while in 2,000- and 1,500-liter oak foudres, which was the case for the 2021, 2020 and 2018 but not in 2022. "I liked the evolution of the wine in barrel so much that I left it there the whole time," Sisseck explained. It's young and tender, ripe and juicy, with some spicy notes but with very good freshness and balance. There will be some 7,500 bottles of Pingus, and they expect to bottle it in June/July 2024.
I met with Peter Sisseck to taste the bottled 2021s and the 2022s that are about to be bottled. 2021 was a dry year after a rainy 2020 (a year of mildew, botrytis and Covid!), and he noticed the change of climate so decided they have to change viticulture. He has changed to higher yields—20 hectoliters per hectare, which is still very low but higher compared with the 12 in the beginning—and an earlier harvest, compared with the initial 1995, when he harvested in early October. Today, it's impossible to do that or you get 20% alcohol. He now harvests all the grapes in September, and he believes he has gained freshness in the wines. Pingus is still the same vines from 1929, where the individual dead vines are replaced with their own massal selection, so the average age of the vines is not all from 1929.
