Winemaker Notes
An intensely rich and layered Oloroso wine. Traditional notes of smoky hazelnuts, burnt orange peel, caramel and toasted butter but with an intense salty edge and nerve not typically experienced in Oloroso. Very Sanluqueño. Incredibly dry, great with rich and fatty game birds, ducks, meats, saucy stews, aged cow’s milk, pieces of dark chocolate, mixed nuts, a fireplace.
Professional Ratings
-
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The NV Oloroso El Cerro has a higher influence from the oak and is spirity, oxidative, round, lush and concentrated, but it doesn't reach the complexity and depth of the Amontillado La Casilla. It's a serious Oloroso with a long, dry and chalky finish, and I like the fact that the long aging in barrel has not erased the influence of the limestone soils. It's a bottling from 2021, but that's not easy to decipher from the lot number on the back label. Best After 2030
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.