Winemaker Notes
A gentle decanting will help the wine express itself more swiftly. One may also age this wine in a temperature-controlled cellar. The qualities that develop with time will differ from the young wine, gradually deepening the secondary characteristics and losing the more primary “biological” notes.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The first bottling from 2024, as shown on the neck label, of the NV Fino is a very complex wine, a textbook example of the category that averages nine years of age. It has a bright golden color and a pungent nose of brine, esparto grass and wet chalk, with marked earthy chalkiness on the palate, austere and with a dry finish. This is a superb old Fino. This has been replenished with younger wines from their own vineyards and seems to be getting finer and finer with each new bottling.
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James Suckling
A pretty, traditional fino with dried apples, nuts, bitter wood and lemon rind. Slightly oxidized, but full of character. Very dry at the end. Lightly salty. Smoky. Drink now.
Sherry is a fortified wine that comes in many styles from dry to sweet. True Sherry can only be made in Andalucía, Spain where the soil and unique seasonal changes give a particular character to its wines. The process of production—not really the grape—determine the type, though certain types are reserved for certain grapes. Palomino is responsible for most dry styles; Pedro Ximénez and Muscat of Alexandria are used for blending or for sweet styles.
Known more formally as Jerez de la Frontera, Jerez is a city in Andalucía in southwest Spain and the center of the Jerez region and sherry production. Sherry is a mere English corruption of the term Jerez, while in French, Jerez is written, Xérès. Manzanilla is the freshest style of sherry, naturally derived from the seaside town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda.