23.8.13 Limited Sherry to Toast the Poet

Bodegas Manuel Aragon in Chiclana is raising a glass of something special to toast the bicentenary of locally born romantic poet and dramatist, Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, who wrote El Trovador, which became Verdi’s Il Trovatore, among other important works.

A toast to the Poet at Manuel Aragon

The bodega El Sanatorio in the C/ El Olivo, which houses the firm’s oldest wines, has produced a very old Cream Sherry based on the old oloroso stored in an area known as the Nave de los Poetas. Enologist Sebastian Aragon explained that the wine is a blend of very old oloroso with moscatel at 18% which could easily age in bottle for a further 50 years. It is, however a limited release of only 1,000 bottles.