Fino Viña Corrales is the Jerez project of Peter “Pingus” Sisseck and the Del Río family, based in Pago Balbaína and focused on expressing site, patience, and precision. The wine is produced from their certified organic Viña Corrales vineyard, which now exclusively feeds the criaderas, giving increasing vineyard identity and consistency with each bottling.

Although released as Non-Vintage, each saca reflects the character of the year in which it is drawn and bottled. The wine is tasted daily and released only when it reaches its ideal moment, rather than on a fixed date. Once selected, it is taken from cask, rested briefly in stainless steel, and bottled within days to preserve freshness and purity.

Aged under flor for an average of nine to ten years, Fino Viña Corrales combines depth, intensity, and freshness, showing how time, place, and seasonal conditions shape even a solera-based wine.

(On recent release) I previewed a preliminary blend for the 2025 bottling of the NV Fino Viña Corrales Pago Balbaína while I tasted the current vintages of Pingus in Ribera del Duero, and the wine blew me away. It has a deep golden color and a complex and nuanced nose, creamy ("mantecoso"), complex and nutty, with tons of esparto grass notes, showing old average age. It's definitely an aged and nuanced old Fino.

There's no room here for lightness; it's complex and big, powerful and intense, pungent, long and persistent but in balance and with elegance and good freshness. This is nine or 10 years of average age. I later tasted the bottled wine in September 2025 and had the chance to compare it with the bottlings from 2020 and 2022. The creaminess from this bottling is amazing. Intense and with a bitter twist in the finish. This has some baby fat compared with the bottlings from 2022 and 2020. It's more pungent, and the colors are bright, which reference a vibrant wine that has barely changed with years in bottle.

fortThe wine from 2025 has a lot more influence from their own vineyard, which is certified organic and is the only one feeding the criaderas since they started. So, the wine is increasingly better each year. The climate of the year when the wine is taken out is also reflected in the wine, and 2025 was a rainier year with milder temperatures during the season; the summer was another story... The wines in bottle are evolving at a very slow pace. They did 8,420 bottles that were filled in May 2025. 97 Pts -Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate