NV Gonzalez-Byass Pedro Ximénez Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Viejo Noé VORS (30 Years/Años)

Community Tasting Notes (71) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  4/5/2024 - AD_jutant wrote: 91 Points

  Super thick and deep colour, reminds me of lab-bottled bromine. This visual even makes me want to call out iodine on the nose.
  Smell of passion fruit, chocolate-covered dried orange, and dates. There are roasted nuts, figs, sesame oil, milk chocolate. Vanilla, cloves, and cinnamon. Machine oil, but in the nicest way. Blood, honey, and chamomile are some extra notes that I get after revisiting the wine. With even more time (a couple of weeks since opening), there are uncanny notes of agave: really smells like a tequila-based cocktail.
  Very syrupy on the palate, very full bodied. There are brown sugar, burnt caramel, smokiness. Most importantly, some sort of piny or woody jaminess like pine cone jam or smth. Dr Zeus cocktail with brandy and raisins.
  Some alochol burn and long finish of burnt wood and cotton candy.
  9/18

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  12/9/2023 - Doc Malvern Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Fig, prune, raisin, nut, molasses. Lovely balance of intense sweetness with acidity. Smooth in texture (not grainy like some PX). Long saline finish. Heart-warming and for sipping by the glass. But I do find a second glass is too much sweet richness.

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  5/9/2023 - Daltond333 wrote:

  Deep brown with a chartreuse rim. Figs, raisins, dried lime zest, dark chocolate, coffee, smoke, brown sugar, molasses, very old wood varnish. Lusciously sweet, full body, medium acidity, low fortified alcohol.

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  4/10/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Does exactly what it says on the tin... this isn't any longer my favourite style of dessert wine, but if you need a wine for chocolate mousse then this is a good choice.

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  11/24/2022 - GArpaia Likes this wine:

  37.5cl, 15.50%, NV
  
  Deep brown, intense. Viscous yet fresh thanks to Acetaldehyde. Raisins, figs, coffee, chocolate, cloves and cinammon. Fresh tobacco. Complex. Sweet. Balanced acidity. Outstanding.
  
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  Hand-crafted from the finest sun-ripened grapes, expertly blended and then matured in solera oak casks for a minimum of 30 years.

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