NV Emilio Lustau (Almacenista) Manzanilla Pasada de Sanlucar 1/80 Manuel Cuevas Jurado

Community Tasting Notes (48) Avg Score: 90.3 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View guitarkim's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/14/2022 - guitarkim Likes this wine:

  Excellent!

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View PSPatrick's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/31/2022 - PSPatrick wrote: 93 Points

  Pale yellow gold. Inviting nose. Great intensity on the palate. Apple skin, nuts, almond, hey, chamomile, green olive, molasse and salt. Bone dry, and yet this Manzanilla finishes on an impression of syrupy sweetness. Very salty, with good body and great intensity, and very long. Hands down, one of the best Manzanillas I have had!

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View forceberry's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/26/2021 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  An Manzanilla Pasada (i.e. Manzanilla aged for longer than is typical) made by Almacenista Manuel Cuevas Jurado in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Bottled from a cask that belongs to a 80-cask solera system. Average age of bottled wine is around 7 years. 17% alcohol.
  
  Pale straw-yellow color with a deep, burnished golden yellow core. Pungent yet sweet and very attractive nose with layered aromas of syrupy molasses, some autolytic creamy notes, a little bit of earth, light aldehydic notes of hazelnuts and sorrel, a hint of old wood and an oxidative touch of bruised apple. The wine shows extraordinary intensity on the palate with its medium-to-moderately full body and rather concentrated, dry flavors of pronounced aldehydic saline tang, syrupy sweetness, some apple jam, light lemony citrus fruits, a little bit of crunchy pomelo, a hint of mushroomy funk and a touch of peat. The mouthfeel is slightly oily, but still the wine comes across as moderately high in acidity - which is quite atypical for a Sherry. The finish is long, sharp and very intense with complex flavors of chopped hazelnuts, aldehydic salinity, some syrupy richness, a little bit of sweet apple jam, light funky mushroomy tones, a hint of smoke and a touch of steely minerality.
  
  A remarkably intense, complex and precise Manzanilla Pasada that leans more on the fresh, crisp style of Manzanilla, yet has quite a bit of oxidative, Amontillado-like complexity in the more oxidative nuances of hazelnuts and bruised apple. The very pronounced, sharp and saline notes of acetaldehyde don't make this wine particularly approachable for the uninitiated, but for the Sherry geeks this is a spectacular, zippy and so very nuanced Manzanilla - very different to the Lusta Almacenista Manzanilla 1/21 of Manuel Cuevas Jurado that is noticeably lighter and more mellow in style. This is simply excellent stuff. Not particularly affordable at 42€ for a half-liter bottle, but delivers for the price.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Fat1Wombat's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/4/2021 - Fat1Wombat Likes this wine:

  Medium straw. Fresh and nutty. Flor. Toast and roasted apples. Caramel coffee. The palate is rich and full. Roasted fennel on the palate. Fresh long and fine.
  Classic manzanilla.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Ebrim's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/22/2019 - Ebrim wrote: 91 Points

  short note - flor, nutts, honey, salty (sea), mineralic, long finish, very good quality, 91p

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 48 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.