The opulence of fruit in this is wine is impressive with dark currants, dried plums and berries. Big and powerful with so much dried fruit, black cherry and toasted oak. Rich and very long. A voluptuous wine from a hot vintage. Drink or hold.

As with all the 2011s, the 2011 Pingus is riper, with never-seen-before alcohol levels (15.5%), but the wine feels extremely balanced. As usual, the highly-selected grapes were fermented in 2,000-liter oak vats with indigenous yeasts and aged for 22 months in second-and third-fill barrels. It is ripe and exuberant, with notes of violets, spices (curry!), smoky peat and umami-like meat-broth aromas. The palate is full-bodied, glyceric with sophisticated tannins, but plenty of them, so they need to calm down a little. I believe there will be a lot of people who will really love this 2011, it's showy and exuberant. Drink 2016-2020. - Luis Gutierrez