1999 Bodegas Vega-Sicilia Ribera del Duero Valbuena 5°

Community Tasting Notes (31) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  7/13/2023 - popasq Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This just continues to evolve in a great directly, drinks wonderfully.

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  8/14/2022 - popasq Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Still solid but given how the other Valbuenas i have from the 80s I am drinking, they are amazing, will wait a few more years to open the next 99.

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  5/30/2021 - Dibbs wrote: 90 Points

  Looked, smelled, and tasted older than it is. Beautifully complex on the nose but on the palate a bit flat. Not as complex as I had hoped. For the price, I would have preferred a nicely matured Bordeaux or Barolo vs this one. I would sell this wine if you have more than one bottle. I think it will fetch a better price than it would be provide drinking pleasure.

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  5/30/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Casual dinner: Thought this was a Bordeaux. Nose confused me as it had a little sweetness but the palate was pretty much quintessential Bordeaux with secondary notes of tar and earth. The oak on this was well-integrated, compared to the 2012 that I tried last last year (and promptly sold my own bottle because of the obnoxious oak use). Good older Bordeaux is much more interesting and complex though, this just didn't have a lot going on.

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  2/16/2020 - Philippe_C wrote: 96 Points

  WOW, superb nose of leather, ripe strawberries, bacon, roasted meat... Super silky tannins, delicious sappy red strawberries, length of 30 sec.

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