Vega Sicilia Valbuena 2001
2 bottles available.
This is one complex wine. From here on in it is difficult to get a good sense of the wines as they change every few minutes in the glass. There is a lot of fruit from the Unico vineyards in this wine, as Unico will not be produced in 2001. Loads of red berry fruit on the nose and oak influences like roasted coffee beans, cedar and toasty oak. Dark berry fruits in the mouth with a huge finish and gorgeous tannin structure. Needs time in the cellar, but a classic wine. 96 Pts. Dave Worthington, Tino e Blanco
Deep red. Wonderfully perfumed, sharply delineated aromas of fresh red berries, cherry, rhubarb, roasted coffee and vanillin oak. Supple, lush and sweet, with medium to full body, a complex array of red and dark fruit flavors, exotic spice accents and fine-grained but firm, youthful tannins. Finishes sweet and long, the tannins providing shape and grip but not intruding on the sweet, elegant fruit and tangy spice notes. There will be no Unico from this vintage so this producer's best fruit is in this bottling."
