Winemaker Notes
Blend: 70% Palomino Fino, 30% Pedo Ximenez
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The first bottling from 2025 of the NV Cream VOS, marked as L 1/25, is a VOS with an average age of 20 years, one of the few in this category, as Cream is usually presented as a younger and cheaper, less complex wine. It has a dark amber/light mahogany color and a complex nose, 18.5% alcohol and quite a lot of sugar, peachy and raisiny but complex and elegant, not at all vulgar like too many wines in the Cream category. It's quite subtle and has aromas of peach and raisins and a balanced palate, dense and oily, with the sugar quite integrated. Rating: 92+
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.