Winemaker Notes
Golden and warm, sunny, with notes of yellow apple, crystallized lemon and hints of marzipan. Green Olive. The ripe Palomino has depth and the token Albariza pungency enhances the region’s umami fame. Racy acidity, mushrooms and pears at the beach. The perfect seaside wine.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The one single-vineyard white from vines in Sanlúcar is the 2017 Hacienda Doña Francisca and comes from the Callejuela vineyard. Like the rest of their single-vineyard white wines, this fermented in bota and matured with flor for some six months. This was my favorite of the range, with citrus freshness (even in such warm year) and extremely tasty flavors, finishing dry and almost salty.
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.