Appearance
Deepish strawy
brassy gold, almost perfectly bright with some legs.
Nose
Intense
Sanlúcar character: salty and briny with strong flor notes and a trace of
oxidation and that smell from rope used to tie up fishing boats, dry scrubland
that has just seen a little rain, a trace of olives, autolysis, yeasty
sourdough, but overall very maritime. This is full-on and wildly attractive.
Palate
Full, it
has quite a tang as well as lots of flor bitterness, salty and yeasty, and
despite that trace of oxidation , the oleic note and a hint of autolysis it tastes
very fresh. It is a beautifully constituted wine bursting with character and
has terrific length. Fine seafood deserves no less.
Comments
Manzanillas
and Finos tend to be drawn from the solera in spring or autumn, when the flor
is thicker. This is a spring 2012 bottling of I Think with 4 ½ years average
age in the La Guita solera. It is a wine that demonstrates really well how much
character is lost through stabilisation. For fun, try it alongside a glass of
normal La Guita, and you’ll see the difference. This was the second release and
was only exported to the UK, USA and Australia, each of which received about a
third of this bottling of around 5,000 half bottles.
Price
Around £
10.00 from Drinkmonger Edinburgh. UK distributor is Alliance Wine
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