2018 Benjamin de Rothschild & Vega Sicilia Macan, Castille-La Mancha
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The 2018 Macán 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 élevage 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 élevage 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.
94+ points Luis Gutiérrez robertparker.com Feb 2023 Drink 2023 - 2030Tempranillo (100%), average age of vineyard 40 years
Bodegas Benjamin de Rothschild & Vega Sicilia was born in 2004 as a result of the joint venture between Tempos Vega Sicilia and the Winemaking Company Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Both firms share the idea of making great wines in Rioja, a unique, singular, inimitable winegrowing region. After a five year period of terroirs evaluation and acquisition of 92 ha of vineyard, the project takes shape in 2009 with the first vintage of two wines, Macán and Macán Clásico. The philosophy is to offer a modern and unique vision of Rioja following the Bordeaux model of a first and second wine.
Macán offers the purest expression of Rioja´s Tempranillo. It is fresh, jovial and pleasant. It is a wine deeply attached to its territory. Freshness, fruitiness and delicacy are its signs of identity. It is produced in stainless steel casks; part of its malolactic fermentation in oak; new oak and single use barrel ageing for 12 to 14 months determined only by the characteristics of the vintage. It is balanced in bottle for over 18 months.
| Product/Service Sold Out | No |
|---|---|
| En Primeur | No |
| New Arrivals | No |
| Wine Type | Red Wine |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Castilla La Mancha |
| Varietals | Tempranillo |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Bottle Size | 750ml |
| Wine Points | 94-95 |
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