良年のみ生産されるウニコの中でもさらに良い年をブレンドして造る究極のウニコ。
スペイン伝統の手法を用いたマルチヴィンテージワイン。

ソムリエをしている長男から連絡が入りました
「Vega Siciliaのレゼルバ・エスペシアルを試飲しましたが、素晴らしかったです！　
通常のウニコのような力強さと濃厚なワインをイメージしてましたが、より熟成香が顕著なスタイルでした。
ボルドーを熟成して飲むよりもこちらの方が早く飲むこともできるなとも思いました。
乾燥したイチジクやレザーや腐葉土、複雑な香りが特徴的で、注ぎたては大人しさもありましたが、グラスを回すことでどんどんと開いてきました。
価格は優しくないですが、余裕があれば仕入れておくと良いと思います。」
相変わらず上等なワインを飲む機会があるのだと感心しました。
究極の赤ワイン「ウニコ」ですから、2本だけ仕入れる事に致しました。
極上の赤ワインをお探しのお客様にお薦めいたします。

NV Vega Sicilia Único Reserva Especial 2025 Release
The Wine Advocate
RP 98
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $980
Drink Date: 2025 - 2040
The NV Único Reserva Especial 2025 Release was produced with a blend of wines from 2011, 2012 and 2013, with 14% alcohol, a pH of 3.86 and five grams of acidity. It has the core of the 2012, possibly the higher percentage in the blend too, which gives the power and structure with the freshness and tension of 2013, which also provides some balsamic characteristics, and less of the 2011. It has a very harmonious and subtle nose, and the wine shows extra complexity and elegance. It has the Único nose with more nuance and subtleness, but what I liked the most was the silky texture and the elegance of the tannins, as usual combining more developed characteristics with elegance and freshness. This is another stellar release of their non-vintage classical blend, slowly going back to the style of yesteryear. A total of 18,518 bottles and 261 magnums were produced. It was bottled in May 2021.
At Vega Sicilia, they are increasing their capacity in large oak vats, which are incorporated in the first year of élevage of the wines. 2020 was challenging with rain just before and during the harvest, and 2015 was a warm and ripe year. The non-vintage blend was produced with wine from 2011, 2012 and 2013 and showed exceptionally well. They produce between 240,000 and 325,000 bottles.
Published: Jan 03, 2025

ベガ シシリアは古くは11世紀の文献に名が記されていた由緒ある農園で、ワイナリーとしては19世紀に創業。1982年にアルバレス家所有となり、歴史を守りつつも試行錯誤を重ね、さらなる発展を遂げています。
ベガ シシリア内の比較的若木を手摘み収穫。収量21.7hl/ha。8500Lの木桶、自家製アメリカンオーク樽やフレンチオーク樽で計30ヶ月熟成後、さらに約18ヶ月瓶熟。
樽熟と瓶熟で熟成期間が5年かかることから「バルブエナ5」と名付けられた、ベガシシリアで造られる赤ワインをまさに体現した一本。豊潤な果実味といきいきとした味わいです。

ヴィンテージ情報
10月1日から13日収穫。涼しく、豊かな収量が確保できた年。11月初めの霜があり、気温が低い冬から始まり、春と夏は平均的な気温となりました。土壌がしっかりと保水していたため生育は早かったものの、9月の嵐で収穫は遅れました。例年以上に厳しく選果したことで、いきいきと垂直に伸びやかなワインとなりました。抽出もしっかりとできたため、初年度の樽はアメリカンオークを5%増量。つややかでニュアンスにあふれ、魅惑的でなめらかなテクスチャー。

良年のみ生産されるウニコの中でもさらに良い年をブレンドして造る究極のウニコ。スペイン伝統の手法を用いたマルチヴィンテージワイン。

NV Vega Sicilia • Único Reserva Especial 2023 Release
Rating 97 points
Release Price $980
Drink Date 2023 - 2034　⇒飲み頃に入っています
Reviewed by Luis Gutiérrez
Issue Date 1st Feb 2023
Source End of January 2023, The Wine Advocate

The NV Único Reserva Especial 2023 Release is a blend produced with vintages 2009, 2011 and 2012, in search of a house style. It's a blend of Tinto Fino with some Cabernet Sauvignon with 14% alcohol, a pH of 3.85 and 5.2 grams of acidity (measured in tartaric acid per liter of wine); so, it's a slightly lighter version of Reserva Especial. When in theory they used three warm, ripe and powerful vintages, the blend is not excessively powerful, but the longer élevage has polished that power and delivered a classical and proportioned wine, aromatic, spicy, with the Vega nose and a velvety palate with very fine tannins and great elegance. 18,318 bottles and 233 magnums produced. It was bottled in June 2019.

ウニコは最低でも10年の熟成を経てからリリースされる「唯一」の名前にふさわしい逸品。
収量はわずか22.5ha/hl。長期熟成を経て、芳醇で複雑な味わいとなります。

2013 Vega Sicilia • Único
Rating 97 points
Release Price $750
Drink Date 2023 - 2035　⇒飲み頃に入っています
Reviewed by Luis Gutiérrez
Issue Date 1st Feb 2023
Source End of January 2023, The Wine Advocate

I had already tasted the 2013 Único from magnum in a vertical tasting of all the magnums ever produced and was quite impressed by it (and the still unreleased 2014 that should be available in 2024). 2013 saw a rainy harvest, and the wine is subtle, elegant and fresh, complex, silky and with precision. The wine matured in 225-liter barrels in an initial phase and then in 22,000-liter oak vats until it was bottled in June 2019. This year, the final blend was 97% Tinto Fino and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon with a little less alcohol, 14%, and a pH of 3.78 and 5.2 grams of acidity, fresh and balanced, more elegant and subtler. Único often transcends the character of the vintage and doesn't follow the norm in the region, and the 2013 is a good example of that. It was a very rainy and complicated vintage; they harvested quite quickly to avoid botrytis, and while other people waited for concentration, they did not, and their approach clearly paid back. It's aromatic and floral, less dense than the 2012, subtler, more expressive and more elegant. It's clean and fresh, tasty, with very fine tannins. It's a big surprise for the vintage and one of the finest Únicos in the last few years. 76,476 bottles, 3,658 magnums and some larger formats produced, the shortest crop since 2009.