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• Juliansi Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 1, 2024 - This 1989 Unico is a blend of 80% Tinto Fino and 20% Cab Sauv, picked early from 30th September. Receives 3 years in barrel and 2 years in bottle prior to release.
  
  Question with Unico is always, what is the ideal preparation? Some do a full large flask decant for five hours of air, others simply bottle-breathe for 12 or more hours.
  
  Seductive nose with florality and deeper earthy notes, including coffee.
  Dark ruby-colored with a complex nose, and certainly shows that this can age another 5-20 years. Unico is nothing but legendary with age.
  Gorgeous, minty bouquet with blackberry and crushed violet flowers too. Interesting hints of strawberry jam as it develops.
  
  Develops nicely with gentle aeration in the glass.
  Palate is silky smooth, with such purity of fruit - Develops weight towards the finish, What a treat to have one of the 105,860 bottles produced.
  
  Lastly, this is a monumental wine with such memorable aromatics, and that divine textured and layered mouthfeel.
  
  Super generous of LMC for sharing this on the occasion of bro RN's birthday celebration, with the theme "First Growth Specials".
  
  Stoked, KL, Malaysia
  1st May 2024

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• Henman Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 22, 2024 - At Rare wine dinner (Muru). Funky and red fruity notes on the nose. Medium bodied, smooth and silky, showing subtle mellow red fruit with umami/funky notes and smooth and almost resolved tannins. This was nicely developed.

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• BradE wrote:

  August 13, 2023 - Another good vs great bottle of the 89 Unico. (It can be great.)

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• melvinyeowq wrote: 96 points

  March 31, 2023 - Beat the '90 Latour: My contribution. Echoing what PCLIN said, I never had a Unico that moved me but I put the bottle in the capable hands of Dibbs who gave it the ideal preparation, i.e. five hours of air, for it to show wonderfully.
  
  This was the first wine served and it was roaring from the start. Incredibly seductive nose that rivalled the best Burgs or Piedmont - so lifted and floral at the same time with a distinct roasted coffee note. Such a youthful palate that it could have passed off as a wine half its age, silky and pure dark red fruits but with a firm backbone. I value the nose and texture as the most important characteristics in wines and this scored full marks for both in my book. Did fade slightly towards the end of dinner though. Brilliant wine.

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• Dibbs Likes this wine: 97 points

  March 31, 2023 - Beat the 1990 Latour: Group’s and my WOTN. We had two Unico skeptics in the group and by the end of the night, we had two new converts. The 89 is drinking absolutely beautifully with a flirty Burgundian elegance. What it might lack in concentration vs the Latour it more than made up with its finesse and an absolute knockout of a nose. With higher acidity than the Bordeaux’s, more red fruited and sexy, it defies classification and stands as a truly singular wine that delivers year after year.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type Red
• Producer Bodegas Vega-Sicilia
• Varietal Tempranillo Blend
• Designation Único
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Ribera del Duero
• UPC Codes 097985152435, 8420342001633, 8436014243027, 8436014243287

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• Pending Delivery 22 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,209 (71%)
• Consumed 478 (28%)

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