Winemaker Notes
A dark amber-hued, oxidative sherry opens to elements of smoke, bittersweet butterscotch, and baked pecans. This long-lasting, dry sherry finishes with notes of dried fruits, lingering on the palate.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The regular NV Oloroso is bottled at an average age of 15 years from their solera. It's warm and persistent with a very dark mahogany color, darker than the 1/14, but it has the tenderness of the youngish wines, with a peachy character. It surprised me with its super dark color and green edge. It's too young and tender, maybe with a sweet touch? But it feels very dry... A bit confusing. Best After 2028
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Wine & Spirits
At just over one dollar for each year of aging, this wine’s price is nearly absurd. What you’ve stolen is viscous and generous, with the precise balance of acidity to rein in the sweetness and frame the voluptuous maturity. It’s a decadent pleasure, trailing nuts, earthy savor and dried fruit in its wake.
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Wine Spectator
Alluring, with gently singed sandalwood and alder notes framing a core of dried orange peel, persimmon and green tea flavors. A walnut oil accent infuses the finish, adding a viscous feel. 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.