Unico Reserva Especial

Huge Spanish Top wine! Blend from 2003, 2004 and 2006, released in 2017.
Reserva Especial is Vega Sicilia's iconic reserva that is made from extra barrel-aged wines from 3 selected vintages.
Here, as mentioned, it is a mixture of 2003, 2004 and 2006.
After up to 10 years in cask and a further 4 years in bottle, the Reserva Especial came on sale in 2017 and I've had it lying in the temperature-controlled cellar ever since.

A huge wine experience and a must-try for Unico, Pingus fans who want to taste the best of the top Spanish wines.


Parker wrote the following about the wine:
Robert Parker
The one non-vintage wine released annually, as a blend of different harvests, is now the NV Único Reserva Especial 2017 Release, which contains wine from the 2003, 2004 and 2006 vintages—very warm and ripe years in general in Ribera del Duero, especially the 2003. As all recent vintages of Único, it is mainly Tempranillo with a small percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon. It has younger wines than last year's release, which was made up of 1996, 1998 and 2002, and the wine shows it with less developed aromas and a more fruit-forward profile. It has the classically developed Vega Sicilia bouquet, but the newer vintages used this time and the extra bottle time they have given to the 2005 Único (which is released at the same time as this), makes them show similar profiles. What I'm trying to say is that this is certainly younger than the majority of Reserva Especial to date, and the forest floor, spicy and musky aromas are combined with more primary notes of fruit. The palate has the polished texture and the very fine tannins that are the signature of this cuvée, and a very long and tasty finish. It's quite approachable, but should also be able to develop in bottle.