Over the
last couple of days we have had the privilege of meeting Jesus Barquin, who along
with Eduardo Ojeda runs the amazing Equipo Navazos. Jesus was in Scotland for
holidays with his family and kindly took the time to offer us a couple of
incredibly informative and interesting tastings.
He brought
with him some fabulous wines, not all Sherry, but fabulous nonetheless. It is
worth pointing out here that Equipo Navazos is about much more than just introducing
us to the finest, rarest and most interesting Sherries. It is not so much a
producer as a project, a club even, run by two extremely knowledgeable
mega-enthusiasts with inquiring minds who have day jobs but also lots of ideas
about wine, and are prepared to show us just how interesting it can be. And not
even for profit!
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| Jesus Barquin (pic:wineanorak.com) |
They are
involved in all sorts of interesting things like working with bodegas to
produce table wines in Montilla (OVNI) as well as the classic Montilla, and
Sanlucar (Navazos Niepoort and the lovely La Bota de Vino Blanco “Florpower”),
Cava of the highest quality (Colet Navazos) and also spirits - there is rum,
whisky, and brandy as well. Many of these projects have common themes such as
terroir, flor, oxidation or bottling without stabilisation, and the results are
astounding.
The wines
we tasted were:
OVNI: (Table wine from Montilla PX grapes)
La Bota de Vino
Blanco No 44 “Florpower” MMX: (effectively unfortified Manzanilla)*
La Bota de Manzanilla
No 42: (From Sanchez Ayala, approaching Manz. Pasada)*
La Bota de Fino (Que
va para Amontillado) No 45: (From Montilla, PX grapes, a Fino-Amontillado)
La Bota de Palo
Cortado (Sanlucar) No 52: (Really young, amazingly good)*
La Bota de Oloroso
(Montilla) No 46: (Montilla PX between 15-20 years old
As this
blog is really about Sherry, only the wines marked * will be found in the
tasting notes (soon). I must admit I am tempted to include other wines from
Andalucia – they are so good and not necessarily so very different. And they
all need our attention.
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