Vega Sicilia Valbuena 5º 2018
Descripción
Valbuena es la expresión más pura del tinto de Vega Sicilia, con una crianza que, entre madera y botella, alcanza una duración de cinco años dando así nombre al vino: Valbuena 5º. Un vino de gran recorrido y riqueza aromática que representa la línea más moderna de la bodega, con un estilo distinto a Unico, el otro gran tinto de la casa. Valbuena 2018 es una expresión vertical, alegre, cristalina, llena de matices. Un tinto seductor y untuoso en su textura.
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Opinión de los críticos
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.
Produced entirely with estate fruit since the 1996 vintage, Valbuena combines Tinto Fino with 4% Merlot that's planted in the lower part of the farm close to the Duero river. Showing the structure and focus of the 2018 vintage, this is a scented, complex, savoury red that's just starting to get into its stride, with Mediterranean herb scents, fine tannins and some underlying grip and minerality. 2025-35
Deep and complex, with fresh black and blue fruit and an attractive floral and peppery note to this vintage, followed by hints of cedar, sweet spice and vanilla. Very dusty and juicy on the palate, with mealy, powdery tannins that interweave with the fruit. A Valbuena 5 that you can appreciate earlier. Drink or hold.
Añadas: 2019 2018 2017 2016
Realmente es un vinazo,pero RCP que cada uno opine si vale la pena
Clásico bouquet de Vega Sicilia, amplio, complejo, redondo y con un elegante final. Mi vino ideal.
Todo ok, vino a tiempo según lo indicado
el mejor aunque precio excesivo
¡Excelso!. Mi tinto soñado.
Gran vino un valor seguro
Buenísimo
No cabe duda de que es uno de los mejores inos que he probado. Si hay algún pero es su precio. Se valora la marca