Saca of October 2022
D.O.P. Montilla – Moriles
20.5% alc. – 75cl
Pérez Barquero
Montilla
Production: 2,700 bot.
With this release number 116 we are revisiting the same solera in Montilla from where our releases number 46 and 74 were sourced. Again Pérez Barquero, where Rafael Cordoba, co-owner of the company, has been controlling with exceptional care the vineyards and vintages for decades. He is a master in obtaining truly outstanding musts, both yema (first press) and color (second press). With these second press musts, locally called “vino de color”, the expert winemaker Juan Márquez produces their Olorosos. Very fragrant and strongly bodied wines, wines that very noticeably show the rotundity of the pedro ximénez grape.
La Bota de Oloroso #116 “Montilla” comes from a selection of casks from the Solera Diógenes, located in third row at the Bodega El Puente. All the casks selected belong to the solera itself. This fact, together with the elapsed time and with the fact that the withdrawals from these casks are always small, explain why this wine is almost five years older than its predecessor, La Bota de Oloroso nº 74. Its estimated average age is therefore close to 35 years.
Drink it in medium sized glasses (riesling or white wine type) in small doses and cool (about 12º/13ºC), in order to attenuate the intensity of its powerful structure. The complex fragrance of this Oloroso is powerful, which allows it to wholly boast its personality at the suggested service temperature.