Vega Sicilia Valbuena 5

Tracked vintages: 25
Merchant offers: 125

What we know about this wine

Critics: 97/ 1002021 vintage
Real drinkers: UnknownNobody has scored it yet
Market price: £108per 75 cl2021 vintage · 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
Drinking window: 2025–2040drinking2020 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet.

Body4.5 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.5 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5: DrySweet

Spice · cinnamon
Earth · leather
Oak · cedar, vanilla
Black fruit · black cherry, blackberry

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£68–£181GBP per 75 cl · 19 priced vintages

1991One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Every score below is a critic score.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2021; 97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2018; drinking, window 2023–2038
Lowest price: 2007; £68 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Valbuena 5 monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure

View as a table

Valbuena 5 monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£108	97	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2020	£123	95.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2025
2019	£106	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2018	£104	96.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2017	£95	96	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2016	£116	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2026
2015	£118	96	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2014	£124	96	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
2013	£123	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
2012	£89	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2011	£115	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
2010	£140	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2009	£99	94.5	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2019
2008	£141	92.7	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
2007	£68	92	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
2004	£149	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2003	£76	92.3	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2016
1998	£181	93	No	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2024
1991	£75	90	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2015

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