A Savage Weekend for Chica’s 45th; 5/16/2024-5/19/2024: A beautiful magnum dug up from the cellar of Rekondo in San Sebastián. Impossible to resist these old beauties from such great provenance. This was elegance personified and albeit not a soft wine , in a way a Bordeaux would have been, but seamless , effortless beauty just delivered with no fanfare or screams and shouts. Usually a wine we find a bit muscular , but with age like this 1981 all came together and frankly we should have decanted it. This could easily age another 30 years and who knows if it can evolve to become a perfect wine. For us on the day a hands down 97
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Mystery wine evening (@Private location): *** only for my memory, no detailed note or rating *** Glass: Spiegelau Definition Bordeaux Tasted double blind. Cool, fine, elegant, timeless, complex and super long. Wonderful wine!
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wow wow wow - what a wine - aged Vegas are so beautiful -- it´s unbelievable, but this wine is young - nothing tired - so fresh and rich - bordeaux like - tobacco - leather - cherry - cedar- so much complexity - WOTN
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Acker Vega Sicilia dinner with Pablo Álvarez (Asador Bastian): 75/79/81. Wow, this is so pure with more brightness and freshness than the 75 or 79 but with similar complexity of herb/spice layered into the strawberry and rhubarb fruit. Early peak and deliciously good.
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5/16/2024 - Papies wrote: 97 Points
A Savage Weekend for Chica’s 45th; 5/16/2024-5/19/2024: A beautiful magnum dug up from the cellar of Rekondo in San Sebastián. Impossible to resist these old beauties from such great provenance.
This was elegance personified and albeit not a soft wine , in a way a Bordeaux would have been, but seamless , effortless beauty just delivered with no fanfare or screams and shouts. Usually a wine we find a bit muscular , but with age like this 1981 all came together and frankly we should have decanted it. This could easily age another 30 years and who knows if it can evolve to become a perfect wine. For us on the day a hands down 97
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4/27/2024 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine:
Mystery wine evening (@Private location): *** only for my memory, no detailed note or rating ***
Glass: Spiegelau Definition Bordeaux
Tasted double blind. Cool, fine, elegant, timeless, complex and super long. Wonderful wine!
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3/21/2024 - UPL Likes this wine: 99 Points
wow wow wow - what a wine - aged Vegas are so beautiful -- it´s unbelievable, but this wine is young - nothing tired - so fresh and rich - bordeaux like - tobacco - leather - cherry - cedar- so much complexity - WOTN
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10/17/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Vega Sicilia Unico Dinner with Pablo Alvarez (Asador Bastian - Chicago IL): 75/79/81 flight, this wine was the rockstar. So much fresh and dried black cherry and plum with braised meat and absolutely wonderful depth. So seamless and elegant. This got bigger and longer with more time in glass.
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10/17/2023 - Nanda wrote: 96 Points
Acker Vega Sicilia dinner with Pablo Álvarez (Asador Bastian): 75/79/81. Wow, this is so pure with more brightness and freshness than the 75 or 79 but with similar complexity of herb/spice layered into the strawberry and rhubarb fruit. Early peak and deliciously good.
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