It has a very strange name – or rather number:
11540 which is the
postcode for Sanlúcar. It is a Manzanilla Pasada bottled en rama at 9 years
old, and is blended from the 6 or 7 best butts from the 15 or 16 oldest butts
from which they bottle the Barbadillo En Rama. These are kept at Barbadillo’s
Arboledilla bodega where they keep the oldest Manzanilla soleras. The firm has a
total of 31,800 butts of Manzanilla.
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There has
only been one saca so far (June 2015) consisting of 750 bottles especially for
the Madrid restaurant Surtopia. The project is the brainchild of the restaurant’s
chef and “fac totum” a Sanluqueño called José Calleja who is totally enamoured
of all things Sanlúcar. He reckons the wine should improve in bottle for over
10 years but is already thinking about a Palo Cortado.
Should you
be in Madrid, Surtopia is at Calle Nuñez
de Balboa, 106 in the Castellana district.
Actually the post code (codigo postal) for Sanlucar de Barrameda is 11540. That said I really must try and wangle a bottle of this from the bodega on my next visit...
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