Brassy gold with golden highlights, a shade darker than Levante.
Nose
Slightly fuller, fatter than the Levante, it has the herbs but is slightly nuttier with the faintest trace of cinnamon and a hint more yeastiness yet less bitterness and it is also ever so slightly sweeter and rounder in style (though still bone dry) and slightly more mature and perhaps a touch more complex.
Palate
There is a certain generosity here, the wine is not quite as lean as Levante, its features are a little more integrated, less wild, but a little harder to pick out. Behind the slightly more "hecho" nature there is an attractive bitterness, a faint trace of fruit and perhaps less salinity. It is clean and very long.
Comments
Being the biggest firm in Sanlúcar offers
Barbadillo a huge range of possibilities for interesting wines. This is a
limited edition of two wines, just 600 bottles of each, from exactly the same
bodega (the famous Arboledilla) and exactly the same solera (Solear) and with
exactly the same age, and the only difference between them is that they come
from butts at opposite ends of the bodega. A mere 200 metres apart, the wines
show distinct differences. One comes from the Poniente (west) side of the
bodega and the other comes from the Levante (east) side. Named after the trees
planted on the east side of the bodega which protect it from the heat, La
Arboledilla has virtually no windows on this side, while the west side has
large ones which allow in cooler air. It is the largest bodega in Sanlúcar with
a huge airspace allowing the huge number of butts in the nine-criadera solera
to breathe. The wines were bottled in June 2017 en rama. It is envisaged that
they will be released occasionally, when oenologist Montse Molina sees fit, and
while they are lovely individually, it is wonderful and instructive to compare
them. The bottles are sealed with a driven cork.
Price12.50 euros, Licores Corredera
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