October 29, 2019 - About the same as last bottle. Its very extreme. Good nose but the taste is shockingly salty. Which detracts for me. This wine is simply beyond.
March 10, 2019 - Wine Tasting Group - Sherry/Madeira - Mar. 10, 2019 (My house): From the cellars of Gaspar Florido / Pedro Romero in SanLucar. Saca of Jan 2014. From wines between 55 - >80 yo. 22% abv. Opened ~18 mo ago. Incredibly intense and concentrated - even more so than EN No 47. Tart grapefruit, intense bitter walnut skins, nuts, pronounced dark roast coffee beans, some seaweed and a hint of sweet molasses. So intense. Complex. Almost every facet dialed up to 11. Not for the faint of heart.
April 13, 2017 - Excellent for sure, with a very bitter nut-skin and toffee note. Very dry and a bit more austere than I remember my last bottle being. Good length, but quite mouth-drying. I think I should try this with cheese rather than by itself.
November 1, 2016 - More austere than I expected. Long finish with pecan, wood, caramel and fig. Modest but fine acid on the palate. To my palate, less complexity than the best amontillados. 93-94
October 11, 2016 - Equipo Navazos Tasting with Jesus Barquin and Eduardo Ojeda at Morrell Wine Co.: single cask, 90+ years old. toffee, nutty with salty crunch on the nose. intense to the max. this wine bites back, bright fresh acidity and mineral notes, layers of nuts and dry fruit. long salty finish with dry apricot and a touch of fig. excellent.
October 10, 2016 - Excellent wine, with notes of toffee, caramel, old wood barrels and a saline-tinged finish. Dry and bracing, with grippy acids. Excellent, but I don't get the Wine Advocate mind-blowing review. This was a pop and pour, so this may improve over the next few days. UPDATE: Much like Madeira, this did improve on the second day. This seemed more focused and integrated with extended airing, taking on a nice cirtus-squirt tang. Curious to try this over several days.
September 4, 2016 - How do you even rate a 'wine' like this? Unlike anything you have likely tasted in your entire life. Truly a once in a lifetime experience...
So much going on here, every smell, every sip different... dried fruits, seaweed chips, fresh sea breeze air, fermented tobacco, wet cigar, char grilled venison, roasted hazelnuts, roasted barley, caramelized blood orange, overripe cantaloupe, maple taffy, pickled carrots...
Very, very phenolic. Seriously, all we could keep saying as we drank it was that it was like it was prehistoric or Jurassic (Jerezzic, if you will). T Rex wine. If you somehow find yourself with access to a bottle and an opportunity to try this beast, please do everything in your power to try it. This is life changing...
May 28, 2016 - We shared this with friends who came over for tapas on 5/28/16. It had a rich, powerful bouquet of toffee, caramel, smoke, almonds, roasted hazelnuts, orange peel and spice. The palate was intense and concentrated with flavors of toffee, almond, roasted hazelnut, orange peel, iodine, and minerals.
March 18, 2016 - Sherry Dinner - mind blown...liver may be as well: wow. rich mahogany color. tofee, sweet fig, deeply sexy, complex mid shimmering with brightness and velvety rich fruit and nut layers. just amazing. What keeps this from being a Palo Cortado? just amazing wine.
December 14, 2015 - Sometimes in your life you encounter wines that you can't describe with words. You just need to taste for yourself to fully understand the experience. This is one of those. Buy.