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Vega Sicilia Valbuena 2021 No 5

98 POINTS — Jeb Dunnuck

96 POINTS — Wine Advocate

Vega Sicilia

Vega Sicilia Valbuena 2021 No 5

750 ML
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An exceptional wine from an exceptional vintage, the 2021 Valbuena 5 is 96% Tinto Fino and 4% Merlot, the vineyard separated into plots for this wine and for Unico. Seductive, layered, and freshly earthy, it offers impressive length and breadth, a fantastic, alive wine that should go another 20-30 years. Stainless-fermented, it’s meant to represent the year and the estate. Once made with a small amount of Malbec and Merlot, the Tinto Fino is blended only with Merlot now. Hold and drink 2031-2050.

By Virginie Boone August 2026

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Jeb Dunnuck

98 POINTS
An exceptional wine from an exceptional vintage, the 2021 Valbuena 5 is 96% Tinto Fino and 4% Merlot, the vineyard separated into plots for this wine and for Unico. Seductive, layered, and freshly earthy, it offers impressive length and breadth, a fantastic, alive wine that should go another 20-30 years. Stainless-fermented, it’s meant to represent the year and the estate. Once made with a small amount of Malbec and Merlot, the Tinto Fino is blended only with Merlot now. Hold and drink 2031-2050. By Virginie Boone August 2026

Wine Advocate

96 POINTS
The 2021 Valbuena comes from a year with pristine grapes, good ripeness and balance. For them, this is one of their finest years, when they didn't have to rush and everything happened in a smooth way. The year was marked by the snowstorm Filomena in January, which provided good water reserves, and the rest of the winter had temperatures reaching minus 15 degrees Celsius! This is a blend of 96% Tinto Fino (a local clone of Tempranillo) and 4% Merlot aged in barrels and 8,500- and 21,000-liter oak vats during the first year and later on only in oak vats. This is the youngest expression of the "Vega" nose—subtler and elegant, more insinuating, less developed and keeping some primary notes; it's not as tertiary as the Únicos. It comes in at 14% alcohol, with a pH of 3.85 and 4.65 grams of acidity, and it has a medium- to full-bodied palate, with elegant tannins and very good balance. This is one of the finest recent vintages for Valbuena, and in a way, it reminded me of the 2010, with elegance and precision. A total of 176,876 bottles, 5,566 magnums and some larger formats were produced. It was bottled in May 2024. By Luis Gutierrez July 2026
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