Intense cherry-red color with slight orange edges. Shiny and vivacious. Well preserved strength from the antocians. Elegant and complex aroma, keeping in perfect harmony fruit, oak and esterification, due to the aging. Memories of coffee, tobacco, compote and syrups. All this with the finest wooden bottom. Powerful and opulent flavor, it shows the elegance of the old wines, supporting the vivacity and strength of the youngest ones. It is complex, tasty, with a great structure and persistence.
What the critics say...
Wine Spectator: 92 points(01/04/1995)
A silky, seamless package of pleasure. Surprisingly dark color, then mature aromas of spice and cherry, with an elegant, soft palate impression that holds coffee, raisin and cherry flavors. It s balanced and long, with a slightly volatile character.
Robert Parker: 96 points(01/08/2001)
One of Vega Sicilia s distinctive practices is to release magnums of great vintages well after the wine s initial release. Magnums of the fabulous 1970 Unico Reserva Especial have just been released. This wine boasts an elegant, complex bouquet of cedar wood, blackberries, cherry liqueur, and vanilla.
Opulently-textured, with fabulous unctuosity, vivaciousness, and vigor, superb ripeness, a full-bodied, super-concentrated attack as well as lush mid-palate and finish, this seamless classic can be drunk now, or cellared for two decades. This wine was brilliant from the 750 ml format, and is equally compelling from magnum.
In 1864, Eloy Lecanda founded the winery that symbolizes the golden legend of Spanish red wine. Throughout its long history, it has belonged to different owners, although it has always maintained an unquestionable personality, making concentrated, mature, generous and extremely elegant. The... current stage began in 1982, when El Enebro S.A., a company owned by the Álvarez Mezquíriz family, acquired the winery and the vineyards from the Venezuelan businessman Miguel Neumann. From that year onwards, the family, with David Álvarez and his sons and daughters Pablo, Jesús David, María José, Emilio, Juan Carlos, Elvira and Marta, have developed a policy of harmonization of present innovative techniques required by the wine sector with the traditional winemaking process. The vineyard area has been extended and the vineyards and vines, which were almost half a century old, have been replanted in rotation.
