Wijn: Vega Sicilia - Unico 1962×Wis filters
(Copied from informal notes)
Vega Sicilia Unico, Ribera del Duero 1962: I managed to buy 2 bottles of this wine about 10 years ago in a restaurant in Spain. Wine prices in Spanish restaurants are the best I know - typically they seem to add only 10 or 20 percent to the street price. And this restaurant was managed by a widow, who had not adjusted the wine prices since her husband died a couple of years before... So I got these at approximately 70 $/€, along with 2 1979s, and 2 bottles of 1970 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 890. Gracias!
But unfortunately the wine was not what I hoped it would be. RP's tasting note (from a Unico vertical some years ago) was very promising - he scored it 95. This was not the case. I don't know whether it's the bottle, I guess I'll have to crack the other to be sure. In the nose there were very clear lactic notes, dominating other better aroma's (fine leather, sweet evolved red fruit). In the mouth the wine felt unstructured, really not coming together at all. It was definitely not dead, but just not very good.
PJ 14,0 • Edwin 12,0 • Walter 14,0 • Guy 13,5 • Dirk 12,5 • Frank 14,6 • Alain 14,0 • Hans 13,0 - Groepscore: 13,5/20 (84/100)
Vega Sicilia Unico, Ribera del Duero 1962: I managed to buy 2 bottles of this wine about 10 years ago in a restaurant in Spain. Wine prices in Spanish restaurants are the best I know - typically they seem to add only 10 or 20 percent to the street price. And this restaurant was managed by a widow, who had not adjusted the wine prices since her husband died a couple of years before... So I got these at approximately 70 $/€, along with 2 1979s, and 2 bottles of 1970 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 890. Gracias!
But unfortunately the wine was not what I hoped it would be. RP's tasting note (from a Unico vertical some years ago) was very promising - he scored it 95. This was not the case. I don't know whether it's the bottle, I guess I'll have to crack the other to be sure. In the nose there were very clear lactic notes, dominating other better aroma's (fine leather, sweet evolved red fruit). In the mouth the wine felt unstructured, really not coming together at all. It was definitely not dead, but just not very good.
PJ 14,0 • Edwin 12,0 • Walter 14,0 • Guy 13,5 • Dirk 12,5 • Frank 14,6 • Alain 14,0 • Hans 13,0 - Groepscore: 13,5/20 (84/100)
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