De nieuwste jaargangen van Vega Sicilia in primeur
Unico 2011
"For Vega Sicilia, 2011 was a fresher year than 2010"
Er ontbraken geen superlatieven als het over de Vega Sicilia Unico 2010 ging vorig jaar. Hij kreeg de hoogste lanceringsscores van de laatste 10 jaar wereldwijd! We kunnen hier alleen maar gelukkig om zijn: 3 topjaargangen in een rij: 2009, rijp en volmondig, 2010, voluptueus en rijk en nu dus 2011, harmonisch en frisser. 2011 is dus een topjaar, maar is een geconcentreerde, Atlantische variant van de 2009 en 2010.
Valbuena 2016
Het goede nieuws is de Valbuena 2016. Deze scoort dit jaar even hoog als de Unico: “2016 was a year of very good freshness in Ribera del Duero”.
Petracs 2017
Petracs is de eerste grote witte wijn van Vega Sicilia. De wijn is gemaakt van hun beste wijngaard in het dorp Tolcsva (Tokaj) en is hiermee de top van hun Oremus project in Hongarije. Gemaakt van 100% Furmint, vieilles vignes van minstens 60 jaar oud. Het is de eerste keer dat deze wijn wordt uitgebracht en er worden slechts 6000 flessen van gemaakt.
Scores Unico 2011 en Valbuena 2016, Luis Gutiérrez (R.Parker)
Unico 2011 : 96/100 "The Único released in 2021, 10 years after the harvest, is the 2011 Único, selected from 40 of their 210 hectares of vineyards. 2011 is a concentrated and ripe vintage, and they selected 95% Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon that were cooled in a cold room for 24 hours before being sorted; the bunches and grapes macerated at 9 to 10 degrees Celsius for three to four days, and then it was inoculated with a pied de cuve to ferment with pumping overs. Malolactic was in stainless steel, and the wine was put through a long aging, 10 years between oak and bottle, using new and used French and American oak barrels and 20,000-liter oak vats. For Vega Sicilia, 2011 was a fresher year than 2010, not the common idea about those vintages in Ribera del Duero. The wine has a developed nose with some notes of ripe black fruit, meat and underbrush, somewhat herbal and perfumed. There is something about the nose of the Únicos that I cannot quite describe but is quite distinct, and it's in this vintage and also in the Reserva Especial.
Valbuena 2016 : 96/100 “The 2016 Valbuena was produced with a blend of 94% Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) and 6% Merlot from 140 hectares dedicated to this wine. It fermented with indigenous yeasts, and the first year it matured in barrels (75% French, 25% American) and the second year in large oak vats. This is again a floral and elegant vintage of Valbuena, very much in line with what has happened in the best vintages since 2010. 2016 is going to be a wine that the public is going to like; it has an extroverted personality and is perfumed and generous, juicy and tasty and nicely textured, with fine-grained tannins and very focused and clean flavors. 2016 was a year of very good freshness in Ribera del Duero, a year they like even better than 2018.
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