Vega Sicilia Valbuena 5°, Ribera del Duero (2021) Gift It's the most famous Champagne

It's the most famous Champagne in the world - around twenty million bottles a year

It pours pale gold

It comes from their own estate in the heart of the Classico zone

Pommery leads this rosé with Chardonnay

Bollinger still ferments a good part of the blend in oak barrels - one of only two grandes marques that do - which is where its depth and rounded

Vega Sicilia Valbuena 5°, Ribera del Duero (2021) Gift It's the most famous ChampagneVega Sicilia is the benchmark estate of Ribera del Duero, founded in 1864, and Valbuena 5 is its purest red Tinto Fino (the local Tempranillo) with just a touch of Merlot, drawn entirely from the home vineyard. Where the flagship Unico is built for power and a decade in the cellar, Valbuena is the estate's more open, ethereal expression, released after five years of ageing in oak and bottle which is exactly what the "5" in the name refers to. The