Vega Sicilia Valbuena No5 2018
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"The 2018 Valbuena comes from a cooler vintage with good yields that required sorting and selecting in search of a happy and vertical version of Valbuena, pushing a little more and giving the wine a little more oak, especially American (5%). It was produced with 96% Tinto Fino and 4% Merlot that went through a three- to four-day cold soak and fermented with indigenous yeasts followed by malolactic in stainless steel. The élevage was in new and used 225-liter oak barrels and 21,000-liter oak vats. It has 14.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.8 and 4.78 grams of acidity (tartaric), so it's ripe and with mellow acidity that gives it a mellow mouthfeel. This is a very spicy vintage for Valbuena, getting closer to the style of Único (while at the same time I felt the 2018 Pintia from Toro was getting closer to the aromatics of some vintages of Valbuena, like 2010). It was a late-ripening year with a tendency toward freshness in the wines. The palate is medium to full-bodied, with very fine tannins that made the wine nicely textured and very elegant. There is a lot of regularity in the Valbuena of the last few years, here with more tension and freshness of the 2017, a little more balsamic even. 180,580 bottles, 5,528 magnums and some larger formats produced. It was bottled in May 2021. 2023-2032" 96/100 Luis Gutierrez, Wine Advocate, January 2023
Brand | Vega Sicilia |
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Country of Origin | Spain |
Region | Ribera Del Duero |
Style | Red |
Wine Colour | Red |
Grape Variety | Tempranillo |
Main Grape | Tempranillo |
Vintage | 2018 |
% Alcohol | 14.5 |
Bottle Size | 75CL |
Flavour | Elegant & Complex |
Body | Medium |
Pack Format | 75CL |
Fine | Yes |
Rare | Yes |