The XXII edition of
the Premios Mezquita which takes place annually in Córdoba has rewarded the Sherry bodegas with lots of
medals. Diez Mérito won a Mezquita Grand
Gold for Fino Imperial and Gold for the PX VORS while the firm’s Bertola won
gold for the PX, Palo Cortado, Amontillado, Cream and Oloroso, all 12 years old.
González Byass also won gold for the Noé, Amontillado del Duque and Tio Pepe en
Rama. Meanwhile the Jerez Cooperative La Angustias won gold for its Fino Mira
la Mar and silver for the Oloroso, PX and Cream from the same range. Their
Romerito range won silver for the Oloroso, Cream and Medium and their excellent
Fino sin Pecado also won silver.
At another competition, the Concurso
Internacional de Vinos de Atlántico, Bertola PX 12 years old, while at yet
another, the Akatavino Top Ten, included 98.5 for Williams & Humbert’s
Jalifa and 96 for Dos Cortados. González Byass scored 94 for their
Tintilla de Rota, 97.5 for Cuatro Palmas and Tres Palmas. Delgado Zuleta scored
98 for Amontillado Quo Vadis.
After the immensely
sad loss of oenologist Manuel Lozano, Lustau have appointed Sergio Martínez in his place. Sergio has already
worked for the firm for 13 years and spent 10 of them working daily alongside “Manolo”.
Lustau’s director general, Luis Luengo, said that “Sergio has our full support
in leading the team. There is no one better to maintain our style and bring new
ideas to the project.”
Sergio was born in San Fernando (Cádiz) and
spent his childhood among the towns of Cádiz Bay. While passionate about nature,
the sea the marvellous local beaches and animals he is also passionate about
Sherry and says his favourite style is Amontillado “for its complexity, subtle
nuances and elegance thanks to both biological and oxidative ageing which makes
it unique.”
Bodegas Delgado Zuleta
have released a new saca of their superb Manzanilla Goya XL. It has already received 93 Parker
points and gold at the International Wine Challenge and Best Manzanilla. This
wine is released extremely rarely, in fact this is only the third ever saca. It
comes from an exhaustive selection from 10 butts from the La Goya Solera by
oenologist Salvador Real, is over ten years old and bottled en rama. It is an
outstanding wine, a true classic, get it if you can. Now.
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| Salvador Real (R) at the Madrid presentation |
