Vega Sicilia Único Experience

Harvest is the estate's fixed point in the year. Unico 2015 was picked by hand into 12-kilo boxes between 15 September and 3 October; the Valbuena 5º 2020 came in between 21 September and 5 October. The house publishes no visitor season and no opening months, so timing is agreed with the winery rather than read off a calendar. Book any date well ahead of the harvest weeks.

Bodegas Vega Sicilia, S.A. is registered with the appellation at Ctra. Nac. 122, km. 322, 47359 Valbuena de Duero, Valladolid. The house does not publish visiting hours, a tasting price or a booking form. It publishes one telephone number, +34 983 680 147, and one email address, so any visit is arranged directly and in advance. Buying the wine is a separate process: written application, approval as a client, then a quota allocated vintage by vintage.

The winery stands on the N-122 at km 322, at 41.629033, -4.293897, on the Duero at Valbuena de Duero; Valladolid is the nearest city. Ribera del Duero runs 115 km along the river, so producers here are genuinely far apart and a car does the work. Bodegas Alión, the same family's winery, is 15 km away, and Peñafiel Castle and Wine Museum is in the same appellation.