Intense cherry-red color with light orange edges. Shiny and vivacious. It preserves the vintage strength. Elegant and complex aroma, keeping a perfect harmony between fruit, oak and esterification due to the aging. Memories of coffee, tobacco and undergrowth. In the mouth, its powerful and opulent flavor, shows the elegance of the old wines combined with the persistence of the youngest ones. It is complex, tasty, with a great structure and aromatic persistence.
What the critics say...
Wine Spectator: 95 points(15/11/2000)
Smooth and rich Spanish red, showing mature notes of coffee, cedar and earth, with a core of plum and prune flavors that builds on the palate, then lingers on the finish. It's firm, yet generous, ripe and balanced. Drink now through 2005.
Robert Parker: 94 points(01/08/2001)
The newest Unico Reserva Especiale is the 1990. For a Unico, it exhibits a relatively unevolved style. A deep opaque plum/garnet color is accompanied by noticeable sweet toasty oak in the nose along with copious quantities of black cherry and cassis fruit. Extremely youthful, vigorous, and full-bodied, with notes of over-ripeness, low acidity, moderately high tannin, and a full-bodied, layered, concentrated personality. Give it another 3-4 years of cellaring; it should last for 25 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.
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