Nose: The nose is deep and soaring as it fills the glass with black cherries, tobacco, raspberries, sour red fruits, spice tones, licorice, smoke, cedar, and loads of savory notes. It takes a bit to take everything in and easy to get completely lost in the glass. Taste: The feel is full bodied with tart, medium+ acidity and resolved, medium tannins. The feel is refined, mature, and impeccably balanced with black cherries, raspberries, sour red fruits, tobacco, licorice, violets, cedar, and smoke notes. Overall: This was a truly spectacular wine. A little was poured off and it was given air in the bottle for about an hour. It kept building in the glass and adding in more layers while keeping a savory quality that was irresistible.

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Spain's most consistently great winery continues to turn out exciting wines. There are four Unico Reservas currently in the market. The 1985 Unico Reserva is already revealing considerable complexity and low acid, plump, round, rich flavors. There is no amber to be found in the wine's deep ruby/purple color. The nose offers tobacco, smoke, tar, and gobs of sweet black cherry fruit aromas. Full-bodied, with a layered, nuanced character, high glycerin (hence the sweetness in the flavors), and a lush, round, generously-endowed finish, this is a substantial as well as elegant, savory style of Unico Reserva ... (RP)

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