Descripción

Este es el vino sin añada de Vega Sicilia y todo un tributo a la tradición y a un estilo legendario. En él se conjugan las mejores cualidades de diferentes cosechas de Unico. Solo las mejores añadas de la emblemática referencia sirven para crear este vino de una extraordinaria complejidad. Para su edición 2024 se han escogido barricas pertenecientes a las cosechas 2010, 2011 y 2012 para crear un blend soberbio. La perfección absoluta hecha vino.

Ficha técnica

La bodega
Vega Sicilia
Tipo
Tinto
Añada
2024
Grado
14.0% vol.
Producción
18.288 botellas bordelesas
Variedad
95% Tinto fino, 5% Cabernet sauvignon
Origen
Ribera del Duero

Cata

Vista
Color cereza con borde anaranjado.
Nariz
Compleja y elegante con notas de fruta negra madura, trufa, especias dulces y matices cárnicos.
Boca
Pulida, con una textura magnífica, untuosa y elegante. Los taninos resultan muy finos y el final, largo, persistente y con un sutil amargor.
Temperatura de servicio
Entre 16 y 18 °C.
Consumo
Desde ahora y hasta 2084, aproximadamente, si se conserva en óptimas condiciones.

Viñedo y elaboración

Nombre
Finca Vega Sicilia.
Descripción
Viñedo situado a una altitud entre 700 y 900 metros sobre el nivel del mar.
Superficie
210 hectáreas.
Edad
Media de 36 años.
Rendimiento
3.000-3.500 kilogramos por hectárea, lo que equivale a 21-24,5 hectolitros por hectárea. .
Cosecha
Vendimia manual en cajas de 12 kilogramos.
Vinificación
Para crear este vino se han escogido vinos de las añadas 2010, 2011 y 2012.
Embotellado
En junio de 2020.

Opinión de los críticos

The Wine Advocate:

The NV Único Reserva Especial 2024 Release was produced with a blend of wines from 2010, 2011 and 2012, not that far from the previous release, which was from 2009, 2011 and 2012, as they are slowly trying to increase the average age of the wine. As I've seen in the last few years, they look for a house style from yesteryear, combining more developed characteristics with elegance and freshness. This blend of Tinto Fino with some Cabernet Sauvignon is also lower in alcohol, 14%, with a pH of 3.85 and 5.1 grams of acidity. The color denotes some evolution with a faint orange around the rim. The nose is complex and elegant, a more developed version of the 2014 Único that I tasted next to it, with truffle, forest floor, ripe black fruit, sweet spices, leather and meat. The palate feels quite polished, with a superb texture, sleek and elegant, with very fine tannins, subtle bitterness and a long and lingering taste. This is a superb blending exercise. 18,288 bottles and 272 magnums produced. It was bottled in June 2020.

Tim Atkin:

The 2024 release of Reserva Especial - in with a shout as the best non vintage dry red in the world - is well up to the illustrious standards of its predecessors. Marrying Tinto Fino with 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, it's a three way cuvée of the 2010, 2011 and 2012 harvests, with appealing wood and bottle-aged complexity. Rosemary and forest floor top notes segue into a palate that's fine, scented and almost sweet, with classic balsamic clove and vanilla spices and a savoury, well balanced finish. One for traditionalists. 2025-40.

James Suckling:

Dried rose petals, sandalwood, cloves, balsamico, leather, and dried flowers. Dark fruits. Medium to full body. It’s tight and structured with a racy and intense finish. Tight at the end. A blend of mostly 2010, 2011 and 2012 of Unico. Then ten years of aging in wood and four years in bottle. Bottled in June 2019. Drink or hold.