Winemaker Notes
This hazelnut-hued, oxidative sherry is bone dry with bursts of briny ocean breezes. The palate features toasted Marcona almonds with an everlasting, balanced finish. Aged for 12 years in the solera system.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The regular NV Amontillado has an average age of 12 years, six years under flor, and then it was fortified to 17.5% alcohol and aged in an oxidative way. It feels bone dry. The price is for a half bottle.
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Wine Spectator
A fresh, dry, racy style, with pretty dried orange peel, green tea, hazelnut husk and bitter almond notes. Stays taut and piercing from start to finish. Very pure and lengthy. Drink now. 125 cases made, 41 cases imported.
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.