NV Herederos de Argüeso Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Amontillado

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  5/28/2019 - forceberry wrote: 87 Points

  An aged exhibit, having been purchased +15 years prior tasting it and kept in a cellar ever since. 19,5% alcohol.
  
  Pale bronze color with a deep golden hue. The nose feels very powerful and pungent with complex, developed aromas of oxidative rancio and burnt sugar, some boozy alcohol, a little bit of sweet, lifted volatile acidity, light notes of dry hay, a sharp hint of acetaldehyde and a touch of honeyed sweetness. The wine is intense, medium-bodied and sharp on the palate with pungent aldehydic salinity, roasted nuts, some oxidative rancio, a little bit of concentrated apple sauce, light green almond tones, a hint of burnt sugar bitterness and a touch of smoke. Quite low in acidity. The finish is dry, sharp and rather short with intense flavors of hay, roasted walnuts, some burnt sugar bitterness, a little bit of aldehydic green apples and a hint of mushroomy character. The aftertaste feels more sharp and pungent than typically salty.
  
  A still enjoyable and quite complex Amontillado, but also a good example that most Sherries really don't benefit from further cellaring after they are bottled. Even though it is painfully obvious that the wine is Sherry, it has lost most of its distinctive Amontillado character and the wine just came across quite oxidative with heavy rancio character. An interesting study in aged Sherries, but this felt quite tired and flat in comparison to the other more recently bottled Sherries that were tasted alongside.

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  4/3/2015 - The years of the grape wrote: 90 Points

  Tasted preparing for the WSET exam
  Appearance: bright and clear, deep amber.
  Nose: clean, medium + intensity, it shows deliberate oxidation character of hazelnuts, with dried apricot, raisin and bread and toast aromas. Very savoury. There is also a hint of orange peel, but I would call it a developed wine
  Palate: bone dry, medium + acidity, low but perceivable tannins, I would have said medium alcohol for a fortified wine, but at 19.5 it is probably high. Medium body, with a good (medium +) flavour intensity where the hazelnut character stands prominent, with toast and bread aromas. Medium + length, it leaves a bitter sensation in the back of the mouth.
  
  To conclude: intense, long, expressive of the style (especially in the mouth, for its dryness), maybe a little unbalanced on the sharp side, but it's what I expect from an Amonitllado. Very good indeed.

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  7/11/2014 - Timbalimba wrote: 90 Points

  Great typicity here. Nutty, oxidised glorious richness, wet stone, sea breeze. A surprise for sure, my first try of Argüeso's Amontillado. Outstanding

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  10/22/2012 - yofog wrote: 91 Points

  Citric and roasted nuts, well defined and crisp, a big imporovement, to my taste, over their oloroso.

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  7/10/2012 - Obalde wrote:

  med amber; med intensity, date cake, slightly hot when first opened; dry, med- acid, med body/alcohol, med+ intensity/finish, nu skins
  
  after a few days - smooth, butterscotch, toffee, salted caramel; very good

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