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Vega Sicilia Tinto Valbuena 2018
€219.00
Vega Sicilia Tinto Valbuena 2018
Product Description
Valbuena 5º 2018 is a vertical, zingy, crystalline expression, full of nuances, with a seductive and unctuous texture. It is the purest expression of red wine at Vega Sicilia. It is aged between barrel and bottle over five years, giving rise to the wine's name: Valbuena 5º.A fresher, Atlantic-influenced, somewhat more productive vintage. They had to be stricter during selection, but these vintages provided a touch of zing and verticality to the wines, which is wonderful. They were able to squeeze extraction somewhat more for the 2018, and increased the influence of wood during the first year of ageing, particularly the American oak (5 %). During the second year of ageing, the vat worked on this complexity of nuances and particularly the elegance of the texture. No Further Discounts Apply
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Critics Review
Wine Advocate - 96 Points - 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