{"product_id":"vega-sicilia-valbuena-no-5-2018-750ml","title":"Vega Sicilia, Valbuena No 5 2018 750ML","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vega Sicilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46392174084286,"sku":"ESVEGA004-2018-750","price":311.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/9991\/9550\/files\/ESVEGA004-2017-750-VegaSicilia_ValbuenaNo5_62bf1498-9a22-46ea-8bb8-c7debd9ec36a.jpg?v=1771557088","url":"https:\/\/www.pivene.com\/products\/vega-sicilia-valbuena-no-5-2018-750ml","provider":"PIVĒNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}