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The 2018 Macan has moderate alcohol (14%) and more freshness (pH 3.69), reflecting a cooler and rainier year that forced them to fine tune the sorting and selection of the grapes, which fermented with selected yeasts. The elevage was in barrel (55%) and larger foudres for 16 months. 2018 was quite different from 2019, as it was cooler and rainier. The wine is serious and harmonious, which was a challenge, and winemaker Gonzalo Iturriaga told me that they had to be very careful and sort and select the grapes. It's textured and elegant, a style that follows the path of the 2016; it's elegant but with depth, managing the elevage in foudre better, which was a learning process they started in 2016. 74,570 bottles, 2557 magnums and some larger formats produced. It was bottled in September 2020.
This year, my annual tasting of the full Vega Sicilia group portfolio coincided with the tasting of the wines from the Duero, so I've included them all here, even the Rioja project, their joint venture with Benjamin de Rothschild. Starting in 2021, they also started using oak vats for the aging of the wines from this Rioja project, something thy have been introducing in their wineries in the Duero region for some years now.
The project has 92 hectares in the villages of Abalos, Labastida, El Villar and San Vicente de la Sonsierra to produce an average of 300,000 bottles.
◆パーカーポイント:94+点
◆飲み頃:2023〜2030年