#pintia

[chateau-aemkei]

For here,I like Toro better!

RdD or Toro?

[vinhonosso]

Sextou por aí? Aqui sextou MUITO!! 🍷🍷🙌🏼 Posto sobre este vinhaço em breve… porque hoje eu vou só beber… 😉 Saúde!! . #vinhonosso #pintia #vegasicilia #vegasiciliapintia #toro #tintadetoro #spanishwine #vinoespañol #winecellar #winebottle #winelabel #winepro #sextafeirachegou #topwine #estilodevida #winelifestyle #sommlife #winelife #wineeveryday #wineallthetime (em Campinas, Sao Paulo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3j4ERD4kM/?igshid=ptl5zvmrvsos

[vinhonosso]

O vinho mais elegante do painel de ontem, da #ConfrariaVinhoNosso, foi este magnífico “Pintia 2008”! . Um belíssimo tinto espanhol produzido na emergente região de Toro pela fantástica bodega @temposvegasicilia_! . É elaborado com 100% Tinta de Toro, que nada mais é que um clone autóctone da “boa e velha” Tempranillo, e estrela desta Denominação. O vinho é maturado por 14 meses em barricas novas de carvalho (70% francesas, 30% americanas). . Já com seus 10 anos de idade, o vinho demonstra de forma inequívoca o potencial do terroir de Toro em termos de elegância e finesse! . Coloração rubi-granada intensa na taça, com sedimentos que necessitaram ser decantados. Os aromas (de média intensidade) são de frutas negras bem maduras, principalmente cassis, pimenta-do-reino, madeira de leve, chocolate, bastante couro e um toque defumado discreto. Na boca, é “redondinho”: total equilíbrio entre a acidez (moderada), a fruta (negra) e os taninos (ainda presentes mas MUITO macios)! Tem corpo médio e longa persistência, com retrogosto de tabaco e côco. . Uma delicia! 94pts . . #pintia #pintia2008 #vegasicilia #vegasiciliapintia #temposvegasicilia #toro #dotoro #tintadetoro #spanishwine #redwine #vinoespañol #vinotinto #vinhonosso #confraria #winetasting #tastingnotes #winetips #winetime #winebottle #wineglass #botella #vino #wine #vinho #vin #wein (em D'autore Restaurante)

[biwinespirits-blog]

Bordeaux Index - wine merchant with main office in London

Pintia is made by the guys from Spain’s greatest Estate - Vega Sicilia – with their intention being to produce superb wine at a more friendly price level; in both 2008 and 2010, there is no doubt that they’ve excelled themselves with both receiving 95 points from Neal Martin.

[archaeospaindigs]

The first week at Pintia has been a fantastic experience. We arrived on a Monday, which is a free day, then on Tuesday we go on excursions. The first Tuesday we went to Segovia, which was really impressive with the enormous Roman aqueduct. On Wednesday the work really began! We leave the house at 6:45 in order to be ready on site at 7am. The first day we got into the swing of things, learning techniques for what we need to do. Carlos and Rita have been really great at explaining things and making it interesting. A lot of nice pieces of pottery have been coming out of the ground, as well as a few bits of metal and bone. The human bone fragments are white and cremated, whilst the animal bones have a yellow colour. One of my favourite finds are the ‘canicas’ - ceramic marbles decorated with poked-in holes and made for playful Vaccean children. Now we work as a pretty effective team. When somebody sees that a job needs doing (such as swapping full buckets for empty ones, or emptying the wheelbarrows), they just do it. The most exciting day so far was Saturday, when we started to reveal the tops of our first Vaccean burial urns! We had to be very careful after that. We cleaned around them before covering them up again with sifted earth, in order to protect them from the elements. In the heat of the sun the ceramic could dry out and break. Due to bad weather - thunder and lightning storms, as well as really heavy rain, we haven’t managed a whole lot of digging since then. Those urns are still waiting patiently in the ground. After over two-thousand years, another few days probably won’t hurt. At least yesterday (Wednesday), we managed to remove all of the stelae from our sector. A man with a big truck came to help us hoist them out of the digging area and onto the grassy area alongside. It was mine and Will’s job to rush in and measure each stela’s height, width and depth after it was laid down on the grass. Then we got out of the way as the next one descended. Today there is more rain but we’re hoping to be able to do some more digging once it clears a little. We’re running out of pottery to wash!

[historiaenred]

Más luz sobre el pasado de Pintia

Más luz sobre el pasado de Pintia

Leemos en elnortedecastilla.es:

Los investigadores siguen completando el puzzle histórico y arqueológico de Pintia, el yacimiento vacceo de Padilla de Duero que guarda restos del siglo IV antes de Cristo hasta la época visigoda. El Centro de Estudios Vacceos Federico Wattenberg de la Universidad de Valladolid ha presentado los resultados del estudio ‘Cosmovisión y simbología vaceas. Nuevas…

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[ancientart]

A quick look at: 'Spain's most cultured people' - Celtic-Iron Age Pintia, Valladolid, Spain.

Once a thriving Iron Age city, Pintia was settled by the Vaccean culture during the 5th century BC. The Vaccaei were described by Greek historian Diodorus Siculus to be the most cultured of all their neighbors. Despite this, very little is known about the Vaccean culture, who are believed to have traveled to Spain from Central Europe. Pintia has provided a rich source of information about the Vaccaei, more so than any other site in Spain. The area was attacked by Hannibal in the 3rd century BC, and later became part of Roman Iberia.

Clearly, the Vaccaei were no primitive tribe. Although they did not have a written language, their affluence is suggested through the many funerary objects accompanying their dead. It is thought that between 20-30 generations of Vacceans and Romans have been buried at the site, with an estimated 60,000-100,000 burials yet to be excavated. 

One particularly interesting find at Pintia is the twin grave of a young girl and adult woman. The woman was buried with 21 artifacts, including a complete pottery drinking cup collection. The tomb of the child had even more artifacts uncovered. 67 objects were excavated, including different types of containers made out of fine, orange-painted pottery. Many children's toys were also found, which included 23 stone and clay balls (which may have been used as marbles), and two baby rattles. The 3rd photo shows the artifacts uncovered from the young girl's grave.

Such artifacts accompanying the dead act as status symbols for us analyzing them today, they reveal to us the age, sex, and social position of the person they were buried with. Pintia was evidently a rich society -one where even this young girl of no more than eight could obtain a high social status because of the wealth of her parents.

Over the last 10 years the University of Valladolid and ArchaeoSpain have been collaborating together to uncover the history of Pintia, with current excavations focusing on the cemetery. If you're interested in helping excavate the site, check out the program ArchaeoSpain is currently running for university students.

When writing up this post, Current World Archaeology's cover story on Pintia (No.29, June/ July 2008) written by excavation directors Carlos Sanz Minguez and Fernando Romero Carnicero, was of great use and reference. I would definitely recommend the article for further reading about the site, which you can check out here. Photos courtesy ArchaeoSpain.