NV Valdespino Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Palo Cortado Viejo C.P.

Community Tasting Notes (44) Avg Score: 92.0 points

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  2/4/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 94 Points

  my experience is adequately worded already by grafstrb and lake.vino.
  'day 3 or 4. Lot #: 210842, brown sugar; light varnish; toasted nuts, medium-light bodied, high acidity; tawny salinic nuttiness. ...trucking-along quite nicely. ... worth every penny.'
  
  This particular bottle had a few years of age in local stocks. That fact is relevant considering its slow, emergent expression after opening. By contrast, when this lot first landed in Michigan back in 2020 (iirc) it dazzled onlookers on its first pour. Now it has retreated into viscera, to a degree that is evidently healthy and promising. Great pleasure, *plus time.* It's so good after a few days open, and from its honored place in the door of the fridge.
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  2/18/24, strict ripe walnut and lemon smoke; glossy; mineral. Terrific. I hope MCW has more.

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  12/23/2023 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- tasted non-blind over many days --
  -- TN largely from Day 3 or 4 -ish --- somewhere around there --
  -- Lot #: 220692 --
  
  NOSE: brown sugar; light varnish; toasted nuts.
  
  BODY: brown-amber color -- what you'd expect from a Palo Cortado; medium-light bodied.
  
  TASTE: dry; 20% alc.; high acidity; tawny salinic nuttiness. I've continued to taste this over the days --- it's probably been open 3 weeks, or so, at this point, and it's still trucking-along quite nicely. It's an excellent Palo Cortado, and I'd say my gut impression score is probably around 94. This is a VOS P.C.; fruit entirely from the Macharnudo Alto Vinearyd. $50 for a 500mL bottle, and worth every penny.

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  10/24/2023 - lake.vino Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This is very serious, complex, dry sherry. Nose salty, citric, some acetaldehyde, marzipan, hazelnut, warm spices. Palate has ample acidity, mineral extract. Salty, walnut husk, subtle, rather precise and cut. Wow, I could spend a lot of time with this glass. Complex. Long finish.

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  4/8/2023 - El_Dougo wrote:

  Appearance pale brown. Nose butterscotch, palate very bitter.
  Rare wine: aroma of amontillado and richness of oloroso.

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  3/22/2023 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Could drink this all darn day.

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