Vigorous and spicy, with impressive concentration of cinnamon, anise and plum flavors, velvety, smooth and elegant. Already aging gracefully, drinkable now, but it should only get better.
Robert Parker: 93 points(01/02/1995)
The 1976 Unico Reserva offers a smoky, roasted nose indicative of a hot, dry growing season. There are copious quantities of jammy black-cherries and sweet, toasty, vanillin oak in the wine s multifaceted, intriguing bouquet. Sweet, lush, opulent fruit cascades across the palate, exhibiting low acidity, generous amounts of glycerin and alcohol, and layers of richness. This full-bodied, large-scaled wine is within 2-3 years of full maturity; it should keep for 20+ years.
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.
