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Wine & Spirits
Given the age of the stocks (some more than 45 years old), this wine has amazing fruit presence. While Tradicion hones to a dry style for its wines, this bottling has a certain voluptuousness and fruitiness that's unusual in wines of this style. Youthful and complex, it deserves time and patience when you open the bottle, a wine of meditation, one to accompany late night conversations about changing the world.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The N.V. Oloroso is a V.O.R.S. 39 years of age It is dark amber with good richness, dry flavors, and a softer, more forward style.
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.