Vega Sicilia Valbuena 5º año 2018

Vega Sicilia Valbuena 5º año 2018

Tinto Reserva de Bodegas Vega Sicilia

97 Peñín, 97 Atkin, 96 Parker, 96 Suckling y 18 / 20 Jancis Robinson

Variedades: 94% Tinto Fino y 6% Merlot

Valbuena del Duero (Valladolid) - D.O. Ribera del Duero

Capacidad: 75cl

Graduación: 14,5%

Elaboración: Agricultura ecológica. Crianza de 42 meses en 60% barricas de roble americano y 40% en roble francés. Posterior crianza en barricas envinadas.

Notas de "The Wine Advocate"

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.

Notas de Cata de Peñín sobre la añada 2007: Color cereza, borde granate. Aroma fruta madura, mineral, piedra seca, roble cremoso, especias dulces. Boca sabroso, elegante, especiado, buena acidez.

Otras puntuaciones: 18 / 20 MV sobre la añada 2010

"Algo reducido, con recuerdos lácticos, y tras ellos notas balsámicas y minerales. Hay personalidad en boca, con madurez sin excesos, equilibrio, seriedad y largura. Gran vino." añada 2009

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