Vega Sicilia, a Ribera del Duero legend

See here for tasting notes from 1942 to 2007.

The name of this world-famous, historic Spanish bodega has nothing to do with Sicily. It is simply a corruption of Pagos de la Vega Santa Cecilia y Carrascal, the name of a place involving vineyards and a river, as pago can be loosely translated as 'plot' and a vega is an alluvial plain near a river.

The origins of this Ribera del Duero wine estate, one of the greatest in the world, can be traced back to 1864, which makes it one of the oldest wineries in Spain, even though...