Valbuena 5° 2018, Vega Sicilia, Ribera del Duero, Spain

£170.00 per bottle

ABV 14.5%

TASTING NOTES

94% Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) and 6% Merlot from from vines with an average age of 35 years old. It is aged for 5 years in barrel and bottle, from which the name derives.

This is again a floral and elegant vintage of Valbuena, very much in line with what has happened in the best vintages since 2010. 2016 is going to be a wine that the public is going to like; it has an extroverted personality and is perfumed and generous, juicy and tasty and nicely textured, with fine-grained tannins and very focused and clean flavors. 2016 was a year of very good freshness in Ribera del Duero, a year they like even better than 2018. 96/100 points. Drink 2021-2030.

Luis Gutiérrez, erobertparker.com, December 2020