Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The Osborne VORS Amontillado 5A - AA Very Old Rare Sherry 30 Years is a venerable elixir in a special class. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits endless intensity in its aromas and flavors of crushed almonds, saltiness, and complex fruit. Serve this at the end of a meal with an aged Parmesan Reggiano. (Tasted: May 6, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The NV Amontillado 51-1A VORS, from a solera created in 1830 has a bright amber color. Intensely aromatic, with a nose full of balsamic notes (rosemary, thyme) intermixed with some smoke, spices, noble woods and hazelnuts. The intense, complex and complete palate shows great elegance and finesse, with a bitter orange and saline finish that makes it very tasty. Extremely long. Only 600 bottles are filled each year. This bottle would last, age and improve, probably for many years. Drink 2013-2020.
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Wine Spectator
Alluring, with a hint of salted caramel adding a hedonistic hint, while dried orange peel, green tea, walnut oil and singed juniper berry notes keep this decidedly on the dry, taut side. Shows lovely range.
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.