2016 Vega Sicilia, Unico, Ribera del Duero, Case of 3 Btls
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99RP
Critic key
RP = Robert Parker
- Rating
- RP99
- Producer
- Vega Sicilia Unico
- Vintage
- 2016
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Product Description
RP99 "The 2016 Único is perfumed and elegant, showcasing a very good vintage in the region. Winemaker Gonzalo Iturriaga started in 2015—a powerful year—and he remembers 2016 as a very balanced year, with higher yields and finer-boned wines. The winter was mild, and there was a cooler-than-average spring and a warm summer. September was dry, which provided healthy grapes and balanced ripening. The harvest started on the 22nd of September and finished on the 11th of October. The wine is 96% Tinto Fino and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, with 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.82 and 4.8 grams of acidity. It has the old Vega perfume: intoxicating, complex and nuanced, full of personality, and it has a very energetic palate, vibrant and fresh, not lacking power but with lots of elegance. The wine is released 10 years after the harvest, combining time in new and used American and French oak barrels and 20,000-liter oak vats, and it obviously spends plenty of time in bottle. This is a monumental vintage of Único. A total of 92,292 bottles, 3,695 magnums and some larger formats were produced. It was bottled in May 2022." Luis Gutiérrez for The Wine Advocate, July 2026