Description
2015 – ref : vivino
wine vintage : Excellent
2015 Vega Sicilia Valbuena 5º
€ 200,00
Valbuena is the purest expression of a red in Vega Sicilia, with five years of ageing between oak and bottle, which gives the wine its name: Valbuena 5º. The first year in oak barrel is of great importance to find the additional body and completing its ageing in wooden vats, where it shows extraordinary change in texture, gaining in precision, elegance, tension and subtlety.
Valbuena 5º 2015 is a concentrated and powerful vintage, but at the same time silky and deep.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Alcohol by volume
14.5 %
Variety
95 % Tinto Fino and 5 % Merlot
Average age of vineyard
35 years
Vineyard surface area
210 ha (Finca Vega Sicilia)
Planting density
2,222 plants/ha
Altitude
700 – 900 m
Yield
3,600 kg/ha – 25 Hl/ha
Harvest
Hand-picked in 12-kg cases
2015 VINEYARD CYCLE
Autumn was a little drier than usual. It gave way to a winter with a good amount of water accumulated to face the beginning of spring 2015 with good water reserves in depth. However, the first part of spring was dry, which caused the plant’s budding to be delayed compared to a normal year.
Thanks to the absence of important spring frost and a rainier finish than usual, spring caused the plant to accelerate its pace. The extreme heat of the month of July ensured good sanity of the bunches.
In the end, the good conditions of summer, helped to have a very healthy and slightly advanced harvest compared to an average year with a remarkable balance between all the components of the grape.
STORAGE, SERVING AND DRINKING WINDOW
This wine is ready to drink now holding a potential ageing window of approximately 25 – 30 years if kept in ideal conditions: constant temperature of 12-14 ºC and 60% relative humidity.
Optimum drinking temperature is 18 ºC.
PRODUCTION
173,673 Bordeaux bottles, 5,625 Magnum, 388 Double Magnum, 32 Imperial and 5 Salmanazar.
REF – https://www.temposvegasicilia.com/
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