20 Mature Magnums (mostly Bdx, w/ Unico, Vogue Musigny, Marthas): From magnum. Two Unicos side-by-side. Clear win and my best Unico yet was the 1965 (97pts) which showed me for the first time why people rave about this wine. Like all old Unicos I tasted before, there was just not enough fruit and sweetness but this time, this was compensated by a sweet malty and caramel/toffee core. It tasted like a great old Bordeaux. The 1962 (92pts) showed much less complex, with not enough sweetness and hence a slightly off balance.
TN: A mature nose with dark berries and some malty notes, super fresh with some minerality accents, some caramel. With time so much more coffee and caramel on the nose. Wow. On the palate the same malty notes, some caramel, fresh dark fruit core. As mentioned above, the missing sweetness from the fruit is compensated by the malty notes, the caramel and toffee aromas. Very layered with new nuances popping up with every sip. The same super freshness, lots of tension like the 1962 but without hard edges. Medium length only but overall a great wine and one of the winners of the night.
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Magnum Rarities Tasting in Zurich (Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich): From Magnum: Black coffee, milk chocolate, tobacco and dried herbs emerge first. The fruit includes hints of red berry but mainly presents more dark fruit of plum. The palate is beautifully fresh, adds more aging notes, long finish. This was outstanding and the best bottle of aged Unico to date.
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Annual Richter All-Magnum Extravaganza: Beautiful bootle. Dried bread, plums, espresso, caramel, coffee-yogurt, butter, good mouthfeel and enough fat in the palate to wrap around that elevated acidtiy. Unico at its best.
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A rare treat - as it were - to taste a wine from my terrible birth-year, this is surprisingly good. Mature, certainly #El Cellar de Can Rocca #JubileTasting
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3/18/2024 - maaike2 wrote: 95 Points
Color: hardly any signs of aging, minimal orange rim. Nose with leather, caramel. Freshness , fruit, tobacco, leather, coffee. A spectacular wine.
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5/21/2023 - Cailles wrote: 97 Points
20 Mature Magnums (mostly Bdx, w/ Unico, Vogue Musigny, Marthas): From magnum. Two Unicos side-by-side. Clear win and my best Unico yet was the 1965 (97pts) which showed me for the first time why people rave about this wine. Like all old Unicos I tasted before, there was just not enough fruit and sweetness but this time, this was compensated by a sweet malty and caramel/toffee core. It tasted like a great old Bordeaux. The 1962 (92pts) showed much less complex, with not enough sweetness and hence a slightly off balance.
TN: A mature nose with dark berries and some malty notes, super fresh with some minerality accents, some caramel. With time so much more coffee and caramel on the nose. Wow. On the palate the same malty notes, some caramel, fresh dark fruit core. As mentioned above, the missing sweetness from the fruit is compensated by the malty notes, the caramel and toffee aromas. Very layered with new nuances popping up with every sip. The same super freshness, lots of tension like the 1962 but without hard edges. Medium length only but overall a great wine and one of the winners of the night.
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5/6/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 97 Points
Magnum Rarities Tasting in Zurich (Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich): From Magnum: Black coffee, milk chocolate, tobacco and dried herbs emerge first. The fruit includes hints of red berry but mainly presents more dark fruit of plum. The palate is beautifully fresh, adds more aging notes, long finish. This was outstanding and the best bottle of aged Unico to date.
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5/6/2023 - G_H wrote: 96 Points
Annual Richter All-Magnum Extravaganza: Beautiful bootle. Dried bread, plums, espresso, caramel, coffee-yogurt, butter, good mouthfeel and enough fat in the palate to wrap around that elevated acidtiy. Unico at its best.
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9/6/2022 - beatles wrote: 91 Points
A rare treat - as it were - to taste a wine from my terrible birth-year, this is surprisingly good. Mature, certainly
#El Cellar de Can Rocca #JubileTasting
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