Non-vintage
(NV) wines tend to be regarded as somewhat "inferior" by connoisseurs
as people spend a lot of time debating vintages, especially when it comes to
highly regarded wines, the so-called trophy wines. Let me start off this
mini-series on trophy wines with a NV wine, but still so highly regarded that
it fulfills all the criteria of a trophy wine. This is a bottle of the Vega
Sicilia Unico Reserva Especial (2009 blend) which is made by blending Unico wines
of 1990, 1994 and 1996 vintages, producing 15,586 bottles of this product. It
was awarded a score of RP98.
By blending
the wines from the vintages that are drinking well that year, this NV blend
tries to present the best and most representative wine of the estate in and
across the recent years. In this way, it is not unlike the Champenois making NV
blends with reserve wines to achieve a house character and to ensure that this
does not change from year to year, whatever the weather and harvest.
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