2011 Alvear Montilla-Moriles Pedro Ximénez de Añada

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  10/23/2023 - gjv115 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  It's delicious. Brown sugar and molasses with hints of citrus rind. Great stuff

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  5/17/2023 - g-man wrote: 96 Points

  Wow! A great sticky to end dinner. Walnuts and toffee with an endless finish.

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  4/28/2023 - Labrador Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A rich, concentrated, mouth-coating beauty that lived up to its rating. It was a perfect match for a wonderful chocolate souffle. There were so many good wines were enjoyed, but I think that this was WOTN.

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  9/19/2022 - Geaux Tigers wrote: 98 Points

  I am homer for this sherry. If you don’t like it, I get it, move on. I’ll quote Austin Powers twice this week — ‘It’s my bag baby!’ Less raisins this go round more fig, caramel, just delicious. The finish goes on for minutes—literally. Drank over multiple nights, followed a ‘15 Realm BTK one one night and a ‘13 Staglin Bella Oaks on another but held its own as an after dinner delight.
  
  Drank better with crushed ice when served at cellar temps, better without ice after a night under cork in the freezer—go figure! Not a sherry expert, but I love this stuff. 98 is based on my palate preference.

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  8/1/2022 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points

  5x 1964 red, 2x Sherry: Two sherries tasted side by side. The Tore Albala Don PX 1955 (94 pts) was narrowly ahead of the Alvear Montilla-Moriles PX de Anada 2011 (93 pts). Both showed very intense and expressive, highly complex with lots of very well defined, unusual (for me as a non-Sherry drinker) aromas, excellent concentration and a not overbearing sweetness with a high acidity keeping the wines light and fresh. I didn’t take more detailed notes on the wines, but the Albala showed infinite complexity and precision, while the Alvear showed a tad fresher, lighter and rounder. Overall, these wines are a big pleasure intellectually but you have to like the specific aroma profile, especially the raisiny aromas (I don't). In addition you should not consume the wines too warm in order to contain the alcohol heat. Sherry lovers will rate them higher but my expectations were certainly exceeded and I more than enjoyed drinking a glass of each (but still wouldn’t go for seconds).

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