Winemaker Notes
This rarest dry-wine style, made with 100% Palomino fino, exhibits characteristics of both Amontillado and Oloroso, in its perfume and body. A very special selection of wines is aged in the traditional Solera system for many decades in seasoned American oak barrels.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The first bottling of 2024, marked as Lot 1/24, of the NV Palo Cortado VORS to be extremely elegant and subtle. It's somewhere in between its Oloroso and Amontillado siblings in the VORS category, combining notes of iodine, rusty iron and seaweed with gentler aromas of dried apricots and spices. It's pungent and fine-boned, high-pitched, sharp and long
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Wine & Spirits
Tradición has built a strong reputation as caretaker of some of the region’s most unusual old wines. This Palo Cortado, for example, comes from wines an average of 32 years old, in an oxidative process that seems to have removed everything superfluous, leaving only the essentials. It smells and tastes of sea breezes and albariza soil as white as chalk. Intense and slightly spicy, it attacks the palate with its vibrant acidity, the firm texture filled out with notes of nuts and green olives. Open the bottle to drink it over the course of a month, or maybe a year. Keep it in a cool, dark place and see what wonders oxygen will bring.
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Wine Spectator
A stylish palo cortado, with orange blossom, dried nectarine, green tea, ginger and date notes threaded with a subtle iodine edge through the finish. Rather high-toned, but this dances along beautifully.
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.