Winemaker Notes
East Indian spices dance on the palate of this rich and dry, oxidative sherry. Aromas filled with oven roasted walnuts and mahogany wood notes permeate with an everlasting, lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The winery somehow specializes in Oloroso, so there are a number of bottlings of that type. The NV Oloroso 1/14 is a VORS with an average age of 50 years. It's a textbook old Oloroso, very expressive, aromatic and open with a nice mixture of nuts, varnish and noble woods. It comes from a selection from 14 American oak barrels where the wine aged in an oxidative way. It has outstanding persistence and length. Best After 2030
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Wine & Spirits
For lovers of dry, austere Olorosos, this is a tremendous wine, edgy, all about marine, mineral and iodine aromas, dry fruit and spice playing in the background. Those flavors seem to last forever, and get more intriguing with time. There are no concessions here, but after a couple of days open, the wine slowly begins to show a caramelized side that buffers the extreme minerality, and adds another layer of complexity.
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.