Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The NV Antique Oloroso is open and expressive in the nose, with a predominant note of hazelnuts and varnished wood, a sweet touch of spices, brandy filled chocolates and orange rind. The perfectly balanced palate shows intense, clean, pure flavors and great length. 5,000 bottles produced yearly.
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Wine Spectator
This is gorgeous, with warm gingerbread, Christmas pudding and incense aromas wafting up ahead of a core of persimmon, date, toffee, peanut brittle and salted caramel notes. The long, green tea-edged finish harnesses all the elements, driven by well-embedded acidity.
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Decanter
Toasty, ripe coconut oak aromas along with cooked orange and cinnamon spice. Sweet and rounded dried figs and prunes leading to a nutty finish.
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.