Mature and complex, with broad spice, herb, coffee, tar and plum flavors. A ripe, intriguing wine, with distinctive flavors that are long and lingering. Drink now through 1996.
Robert Parker: 90 points(01/10/1997)
The newest release of Unico Reserva is the 1980. Although it is an outstanding wine, it does not compare to the extraordinary 1970 and 1968. The 1980 is a spice and earth-driven example of Unico, with noteworthy black truffle, cherry, currant, and oaky aromas, that are followed by elegant, medium-bodied, spicy, mineral-like flavors with admirable levels of curranty fruit. This rich, long wine is ideal for drinking now and over the next 12-15 years.
Peñin Guide: 92 points(15/12/1992)
Mature and complex, with broad spice, herb, coffee, tar and plum flavors. A ripe, intriguing wine, with distinctive flavors that are long and lingering. Drink now through 1996.
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.
