March 17, 2024 - Palomino Fino of vineyards from coastal payments located in the Pago de Miraflores, from sequined albariza and closed tosca soils. It ferments in stainless steel tanks and heads up to 15% and becomes part of the breeding and soleras system, carrying out an organic aging with a flower veil in these 516 L American oak boots, for more than 4 years. Candied fruit, floral, citrus, nuts, mineral, salty, tasty, fresh and persistent.
July 21, 2023 - Classic. A bit simple and a bit sour balance. Fine but nothing special.
May 12, 2023 - This bottle seems particularly good. Rich, smooth, but still with a bite.
April 30, 2023 - Decent dry manzanilla, not a great deal of character. No vices, no virtues, that style of wine. This used to be very special (20 - 30 years ago), but isn't today.
April 8, 2023 - Biologically aged. Separate DO.
Nose citrus, grapefruit, tangy.
Palate dry and tangy.
December 10, 2022 - Deep Gold colour. Nose has salted, lightly toasted almond, beeswax and a light cheesy pungent note. Taste, like the nose, has barely no fruit at all, also replicating the nutty and cheesy aromas while adding light lemon peel. Medium body and acid, some oiliness. Very nice manzanilla, very affordable at 8,98€ for 375ml, but nothing special.
March 18, 2022 - Mineral, citrus, flor, salt. Frisk syra. Lång smak med lätt nötighet i finishen..
January 2, 2022 - Lighweight manzanilla but no loss of flavour dry bready slightly darker than normal slightly acidic, very good example.
October 11, 2021 - Bottle aged for 3,5 years (lot L18115G, bottled April 2018).
NOSE: Fresh white bread, olive brine, saline rocky sea shore, green olives, elderberry flowers, sweet almonds. (90p)
TASTE: Saline, briney, with an underlying freshness / acidity which is coated, almost hidden by the very viscous, creamy mouthfeel. Perhaps just a slight weakness on the mid palate, hardly noticeable. Mouth watering stuff. (89-90p)
OVERALL: Less overtly flowery and appley but richer, creamier/oilier, deeper (darker?) and more substantial now than when I last tasted a bottle from this lot, at 0.5 year of bottle age in 2018. To me this shows again that when even ordinary (not specially selected, en-rama) finos or manzanillas from quality producers age, instead of withering and dying, they start on their way to a more profound Sherry heaven. Utterly delectable stuff. TOTAL SCORE 90 points.
October 9, 2021 - Tasting Training for WSET Level 4, Units D4 + D5 - Session 4 (Dry Sherry, non-blind): Wine 3: Half-bottle. Screw cap. The wine has a medium lemon colour. The nose has medium(-) intensity and shows aromas of acetaldehyde (bruises apple, hey, chamomile), nuts and almond.
On the palate the wine is dry, with low acidity, low alcohol, and a light body. The flavour intensity is medium-minus, flavours from biological ageing include bruised apple, chamomile, almond and nuts. The wine tastes salty. The finish has medium length.
This is a very good quality wine since it shows good typicity, good complexity of aromas and flavours, the alcohol is very well-integrated, the finish has medium length, and overall, the wine seems very harmonious. To be considered being of outstanding quality the wine would need greater complexity and length.
The wine is ready to drink and not suitable for further ageing in bottle. With ageing it would lose with freshness and become bland and disjointed.
NB: More elegant and more harmonious that bot the regular Tio Pepe Fino Muy Seco and the El Maestro Sierra Sherry Fino. Very good value.