Valbuena 5º Año 2018 Magnum
£318.87 (Inc. VAT bot. 150 cl.) / North Ireland
Robert Parker's 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.
Features
Type of wine
Style
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Winery
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Appellation
Alcohol
14.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 16ºC and 18ºC
Winemaking
Aged for 30 months in new French and American oak barrels.
Shipping to North Ireland
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| Bottles | Price | Over £346.40 |
|---|---|---|
| 1-6 | £11.17 | £5.59 (-£5.59) |
| 7-12 | £15.15 | £7.58 (-£7.58) |
| 13-18 | £21.22 | £10.61 (-£10.61) |
| 19-24 | £29.01 | £14.51 (-£14.51) |
| 25-30 | £33.69 | £16.84 (-£16.84) |
| 31-36 | £37.67 | £18.84 (-£18.84) |
| 37-42 | £45.46 | £22.73 (-£22.73) |
| 43-48 | £49.79 | £24.90 (-£24.90) |
| 49-54 | £56.25 | £28.12 (-£28.12) |
| 55-60 | £60.45 | £30.22 (-£30.22) |
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