Bodegas Benjamin de Rothschild Vega Sicilia Macan Rioja 2018

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Bodegas Benjamin de Rothschild Vega Sicilia Macan Rioja 2018

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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.
SKU

PJ01082

COUNTRY

Spain

REGION

Rioja

TYPE

Red

VINTAGE

2018

VOLUME

.750L