Bright paleish strawy gold, legs.
Nose
Saline, bread dough and camomile, bitter almond, slightest trace seaweed and olive brine and dry scrubland, traces of autolysis in the background, very complex and expressive yet beautifully fresh, fantastic.
Palate
Once in the mouth it just grows, bone dry, all the flavours of the nose, very savoury from autolysis with pronounced notes of olive, low acid compensated for by flor bitterness, bursting with flavour and with great persistence.
Comments
An absolute beauty. This wine is over 10 years old and fresher than most daisies. It is a Manzanilla with all the hallmarks of a pasada yet just so fresh. John Radford gave it 19/20 and so do I. The scales of the solera are run only to compensate for losses due to transpiration, and of course to refresh the nutrients for the flor, so not much is available for sale, just one annual selected saca. While this might be reviewed, the feeling is that it is better to draw the wine in its very best moment than to draw it seasonally. Do try and get some.
Price
15 euros ex bodega for a 50cl bottle, and somewhere around £20 in the UK, imported by Borough Wines. And worth every centimo or penny!
Are you sure Borough Wines are the importer? They have no sherry at all on their list.
ReplyDeleteCharlie, they are indeed. Borough Wines is the UK importer for the whole Delgado Zuleta range. In fact I got my bottle of La Goya XL from the Stoke and Newington store. They have a good supply of them right now :)
ReplyDeletetry www.ultracomida.co.uk on http://ultracomida.co.uk/spanish-food-wine/show/goya-xl-manzanilla-en-rama its £18.95 a bottle and if you buy a case of 12 you get 20% off.
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