Community Tasting Notes (21) Median Score: 86 points

  • Pale straw colour. Nose has salinity, blanched almonds, matured cheese yeast, notes of mushrooms and trace of white pear. Taste is also saline, moderate yeast, bitter almonds and crushed gravel. Dry. VG and improved while opened in the fridge.

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  • Good fruity dryness. Salty. Well balanced. Not very complex.

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  • They say Fino is supposed to be drunk over 12-18 months since its bottling, so I had little expectations for this Osborne Fino bottled 23/04/2012. Luckily I was wrong. Rather smoky and mineral on the nose with entwined nutty and yeasty hints, also some animal notes (musk?) presented, quite dry on the palate with medium acidity, salt, almond and green olive flavours.

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  • Very pale hay colour.
    Smells like a bowl full of cereals touched by a rancid, smoky (maybe rockets, fireworks) element. En rama style.
    Short length and compromised acidity on the palate. Well integrated alcohol. Best thing? That rancid, bitter aftertaste.

    Del color pálido del heno.
    Huele como un tazón lleno de cereales tocados por un elemento rancio, ahumado (puede que cohetes o fuegos artificiales). Como un fino en rama.
    Longitud corta y acidez comprometida al paladar. Alcohol bien integrado. ¿Lo mejor? Ese rancio y amargo regusto.

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  • Tasted at Osborne. For a basic, inexpensive fino, this exhibits very good typicity; you couldn't mistake it for anything but El Puerto. The flor character is so distinctly Puerto, and though not complex, it has decent pungency and good crispness, just the thing for a hot day. Nice length and freshness, too. Could be bottle a year older and less filtered, but what are ya gonna do?

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