Hidalgo Amontillado 'Pastrana' VORS' 500ml

"I was really surprised by the unexpected sharpness of an new wine from Hidalgo-La Gitana, the NV Amontillado Pastrana. It is a new, single-vineyard Amontillado from a plot within Miraflores in Sanlucar de Barrameda. As with the Manzanilla Pasada from the same vineyard, this is a collaboration between Javier Hidalgo and Cristiano van Zeller from the Douro. This Amontillado is a wine averaging 30 years of age with a light mahogany color, quite bright and clear.The nose combines iron rust … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Bodegas Hidalgo
Region: Jerez
Sub Region: Sanlucar de Barrameda

Equipo Navazos La Bota 51 Palo Cortado Viejísimo "Bota GF" 375ml

Saca of February 2014. DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry

22% alc. Bodega: Gaspar Florido /Pedro Romero Sanlúcar de Barrameda

Nº 51 La Bota de Palo Cortado Viejísimo "Bota GF" is another spine tingling micro-batch release from the same source as the stunning La Bota No. 47 "Bota NO" and No. 48 "Bota Punta". These latter two wines, along with the La Bota de Amontillado 49 "Bota A. R." from the same old collection of soleras, count amongst the most remarkable Sherries bottled by … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Equipo Navazos
Region: Jerez

Hidalgo Oloroso Single Vineyard Anada 1986 500ml

A vintage sherry from 12 old barrels filled in 1986 from the El Cuadrado vineyard. The wine matured for 20 years in the San Francisco bodega and 2800 bottles were filled in 2007.

An epic sherry; smells mature, nutty and oily. A full, elegant palate shows the right weight and acidic cut, while salty flavors of peanut and caramel finish long, nutty. It has the elegance of Sanlucar with classy intensity and concentration. Some black treacle, cloves and wood spices. … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Bodegas Hidalgo
Region: Jerez

Toro Albala Amontillado Seleccion 1951 200ml

21% ABV. "My favorite of the two Amontillados is the 1951 Amontillado Selección a rare, single-vintage Amontillado produced with Pedro Ximénez grapes as is the norm in Montilla-Moriles. It's a bright mahogany color with an amber-green tint that reveals pharmaceutical notes and balsamic, with roasted, charred aromas and a sweetish palate that retains the sharpness expected in this kind of wine. It is lacking a bit in the mid-palate before ending with a slightly bitter, tarry finish. This is completely … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Toro Albala
Region: Montilla Moriles

Equipo Navazos La Bota 88 Malt Whisky. Single Oloroso Cask. 700ml

46% alc. Single Oloroso cask. A Scottish Malt aged in Jerez! This is sourced solely from what Navazos refer to as a "prestigious distillery in Scotland" (hence the "overseas")--we don't know the exact distillery and perhaps never will. Its age is estimated at around 12 years, of which the past seven--as per the 89 Grain Whisky--have been spent in a single cask from a solera of very old, dry Oloroso Sherry.

It's a Whisky of remarkable character and complexity. It … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Equipo Navazos
Region: Jerez

Pegaso Barrancos de Pizzara Garnacha 2010 Magnum

A 'barranco' is a radical vineyard, and they really are: brown schist, ravine-steep, ultra-high-altitude, no 'soil' to speak of, and quite minerally with lots of quartz. Fruit from old, niggardly centenarian bush-vines, now farmed biodynamically, is now gently handled in large older French oak and concrete eggs. Smells of brick-dust, floral red fruits, pimiento and woodspice. Big never so beautiful - it has space, grace and wisdom exceeding extract and alcohol.

Country: Spain
Producer: Telmo Rodriguez
Region: Sierra de Gredos

Equipo Navazos La Bota de Brandy Single Cask. Bota NO (No. 64) 700ml

This brandy is born of the finest spirits or ‘holandas’ that were double-distilled in stills in the French style at 72% alc. Almost twenty years old, it has spent the first twelve in new Limousin oak butts and the remaining six or seven in dry oloroso butts. One of the latter has been selected and bottled by hand in its entirety. La Bota de Brandy de Jerez 64 'Bota NO' is a refined and stylish spirit that displays its true … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Equipo Navazos
Region: Jerez

Hidalgo Oloroso Faraon VORS 500ml

Grapes are sourced exclusively from vineyards in Balbaina and Miraflores, and only the free run juice is used for Oloroso Faraon. It's a dry oloroso - deep, rich and complex with a really intense flavour of grilled nuts but an astonishingly fresh acidity. A well-balanced and insatiably moreish style of Sherry that manages to walk a fine line between sweetness and richness. Hidalgo's tradmark minerality underscores notes of dried fig, walnut and caramel.

Country: Spain
Producer: Bodegas Hidalgo
Region: Jerez

Williams & Humbert 'William's Colección' Oloroso Viejisimo Estático en rama 2001 (Bottled January 2019) 500ml

Super deep and complex, rich and saline, with a pure developed perfume. Mapled acorn-rich, lightly glyceric, deeply spiced, strong at the rim, releasing to an athereal boof from a structural base. Fine glazed toffee nut, orange blossom, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, dried chestnut honey, toasted hazelnuts, delicate tangerine caramel, brandied citrus, sandalwood. The acidity itself is incredibly complex, carrying brine and rind, fine old wheat and praline in a gloriously patinated, running mouthfeel. Finish = forever!

Country: Spain
Producer: Williams & Humbert
Region: Jerez

La Rioja Alta 'Gran Reserva 904' Tempranillo 2015

Tempranillo (89%) from vines over 60 years old & Graciano (11%).

Country: Spain
Region: Rioja

Toro Albalá Palo Cortado Marques de Poley Selección 1964 200ml

22% ABV. "The 1964 Palo Cortado Marqués de Poley Selección was aged in a solera system of which 50 botas remain. It's a very old fortified wine produced with Pedro Ximénez grapes, aged in well-seasoned American oak barrels. It is full-bodied, which hints at an Oloroso origin, and has the aromas of a very old wine with rusty nail, saltpeter, low tide, phosphor and matchstick notes with a volatile twist. Wines like this are not meant to be consumed by … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Toro Albala
Region: Montilla Moriles

Roda 1 Rioja Reserva 2017

Country: Spain
Producer: Bodegas Roda
Region: Rioja

Toro Albala Don PX Pedro Ximenez Seleccion 1968 200ml

"Going up the ladder of age, concentration, complexity (and price), the 1968 Don PX Seleccion aged in American oak butts for some 47 years before bottling, and was never blended with any other vintage. The wine has 340 grams of unfermented sugar and higher acidity given its age, as evaporation in barrel concentrates everything. This is somehow less dense and more pungent than the other old sweet wines, with more spices, lots of cinnamon and cocoa powder. It's more fluid, … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Toro Albala
Region: Montilla Moriles

Lustau VORS Palo Cortado 500ml

This sherry is produced by an Almacanista, a small producer whose skills are handed down from generation to generation. It is then marketed by a large company such as Lustau.

100% Palomino grape. This Palo Cortado comes from a selection of the best casks in the very limited solera of Don Rafael. The Council of the Denomination of Origin has endorsed it with the category VORS, more than 30 years of ageing.

Coppery topaz in colour. Vibrant nutty pecan aromas. … more

Country: Spain
Producer: Bodegas Lustau
Region: Jerez

Lustau VORS Pedro Ximenez 500ml

Country: Spain
Producer: Bodegas Lustau
Region: Jerez