96
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate
The 2005 Vecina is also strutting its stuff. I can’t
say it showed better than it did last year, but this wine comes
close to perfection for my palate. Made in a Graves-like style,
it exhibits scents of roasted herbs, espresso, scorched rocks, and
liquid minerals seamlessly integrated into a full-bodied, dense
wine offering a cascade of black cherries and black currants. Built
for the long haul, this powerful 2005 is soft enough to be drunk
early, but it will not hit its stride for at least a decade, and
should age for three decades thereafter.
Drink: '18 - '48. |
94
Wine Spectator
Intense and racy wild berry and blackberry fruit
is flashy, tight, pure, focused and beautifully defined, picking
up a nice dusty berry edge, with hints of black licorice, and offering
wonderful depth, richness and persistence.
Best from '10 through '18. |