Pale towards mid-amber, ruddy tints, legs.
Nose
Most attractive, classic Amontillado nose of top quality. The transformation is complete. Toasted hazelnuts, honey, toast, a glyceric sweetness like turron yema tostada, almond essence, traces of cinnamon, damp barrels, toasted sesame seeds, yet also traces of Flor salinity and zip. Very complex and beautiful.
Palate
Quite crisp, some acidity there, up front flavour which mellows through hazelnut and marzipan, eternally long and quite superb.
Comments
This wine is 45 years old and comes from the six butts dating from 1871 called the Museo Solera. GB still refer to it as a Fino, but it has surely been Amontillado for at least the last 30 years. It was bottled "en rama" on 24th October 2011 for release in November. It underwent carbon 14 tests to prove its age. It is very rare to try a wine so old, let alone one which could happily age for much longer. Only age itself and the fact that it was aged biologically as well as oxidatively could confer on it such complexity. It is absolutely wonderful.
Price
About £57.00 (50cl)
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