Equipo Navazos La Bota 72 de Palo Cortado "Pata de Gallina" 500ml

Saca of January 2017 | D.O. Jerez - Xérès - Sherry | 20.5% alc. | Origin: Rey Fernando de Castilla | Jerez de la Frontera.

Reship. This rare wine is bottled from a selection made more than five years ago from the finest casks of old wine owned by almacenista Juan García Jarana. The previous release was the No. 34 La Bota de Palo Cortado "Pata de Gallina", bottled in 2012 after a short period of settling in a small, 6-butt solera that was moved to Fernando de Castilla. Since then, the wine has aged for five more years in the same tiny solera (locally called an 'altarillo', for 'little altar') that bears the Equipo Navazos stamp. The average age of this wine is now 30 years, yet it's remarkably fresh and explosively intense. The perfume is lifted and stops you in your tracks with notes of dried fig, creamed caramel and balsam, while the palate is almost too seductive and delicious for words - at once fluid, driven and saline, offering the characters of the nose, but also sea spray and even bitter chocolate and dried orange. Despite all of these seemingly hedonistic characters, the wine remains refreshingly dry, salty, spicy and complex. This is something very special.

"The older of the two Palo Cortados I tasted in this sitting was the NV La Bota de Palo Cortado 72 "Pata de Gallina," bottled at an average age of 35 years (it would qualify for a VORS if they wanted) and of Jerez origin. It was sourced from the Almacenista Juan García Jarana and then matured in the Fernando de Castilla winery. It spent some 30 years in a solera of casks filled to 5/6 of their volume and the last five years untouched in six 500-liter butts that belong to Equipo Navazos in the cellars of Fernando de Castilla. It's powerful and elegant, with the oxidative style more present. This is surprisingly elegant, with lots of finesse, nuances and character and a very long, tasty finish. Number 34 was an earlier edition of this same wine. 2,000 half-liter bottles in were filled in January 2017." 95 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate #234

Country: Spain
Producer: Equipo Navazos
Region: Jerez
Sub Region: Sanlucar de Barrameda