Saca of October 2011 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 20% alc. – 50cl Bodega: La Guita. Sanlúcar de Barrameda In the wine cellars owned by La Guita on the road to Jerez outside Sanlúcar de Barrameda there are several Amontillado soleras identified by the number of butts that exist of each one, and…
Saca of June 2011 D.O. Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 15,6% alc. Limited edition of 3,600 (75cl) bottles Bodega: La Guita. Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Rafael Rivas, capataz for several decades at La Guita cellars at Sanlúcar’s Calle Misericordia until his recent retirement, started in 1986 this 15-butt solera with a well-aged…
Saca of March 2011 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 21% alc. Limited edition of 900 (37,5cl) bottles Bodega: Rey Fernando de Castilla, Jerez de la Frontera Led by Jan Pettersen, Fernando de Castilla is a Sherry house that illustrates like few others the rebirth of traditional Andalusian wines in the final years of…
Saca of September, 2010 D.O. Montilla-Moriles 15,6% alc. Limited release: 2,600 bottles (75 cl.) Bodega: Pérez Barquero, Montilla A Fino on its way toward becoming an Amontillado, a wine traditionally labeled by winemakers and connoisseurs as Fino Amontillado—no matter how unfavorable the current legislation seems to be toward this ancient…
Saca of May 2010 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 21% alc. Limited release: 1,400 bottles (50 cl.) This is a very old wine, from the same bodega in the ancient “de la Balsa” quarter in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in which La Bota de Amontillado no. 1 and no. 9 “Navazos”, and La…
Saca of May 2010 D.O. Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 15% alc. Limited release: 4,500 bottles (75 cl.) Following the same procedure as for releases number 4, 8 and 16 in the series “La Bota de…”, this time we selected twenty two butts from the solera of the best-aged manzanilla in…
Saca of February 2010 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 20,5% alc. Limited release: 1700 bottles (75 cl.) Bodega: Valdespino. Jerez de la Frontera The rich diversity of soleras of exceptional quality hosted in the different cellar facilities owned by Grupo Estévez on the outskirts of Jerez is truly impressive. This is largely due…
Saca of January 2010 D.O. Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 16% alc. Limited release: 750 bottles (50 cl) Bodega: Hijos de Rainera Pérez Marín, Sanlúcar de Barrameda Edition number 10 of the “La Bota de…” series was made from a 1/15 “one in fifteen” solera (a solera made of only fifteen…
Saca of September 2009 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 21% alc. Limited release: 600 bottles (37,5 cl) Bodega: Valdespino, Jerez de la Frontera An old Andalusian winemaking tradition is to single out certain butts of superior quality with a “NO” chalk mark, and preserve those from the customary regime of extraction and refreshment.…
Saca of December 2009 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 15% alc. Limited release: 4,000 bottles (75 cl.) Bodega: Valdespino, Jerez de la Frontera La Bota de Fino (18) “Macharnudo Alto” is a new release—extracted in December 2009—of the soleras that already yielded similar ventures in June 2006, April 2007, and June 2008. As…
