Barbadillo Palo Cortado "SAN ROBERTO" Sherry 375ml
| Description: | Wine Advocate 100 Points The Nv Palo Cortado S. Roberto is a one-off wine that comes from a unique barrel. This single-barrel wine is thought to be very old, because the wine has been untouched since the 1980s, so the wine has to be 80 to 90 years old (perhaps more). But it's not a dynamic solera. Although the barrel was untouched, the oak must be covered by tartrates and the wine evolved slowly, with little evaporation and concentration. In fact, for such an old wine, it's unusual that the alcohol is a "moderate" 20.5%. So, the wine, which was always classified as Palo Cortado, has incredible finesse and elegance, combined with concentration and power. It's a textbook, balanced and clean, fine and elegant, extremely old Palo Cortado. This is as good as Palo Cortado gets. It doesn't have the concentration and depth of the Reliquia, but this is anecdotal and impossible to repeat and the Reliquia can be bottled in very small quantities every year, so it's sustainable and this is not. Splitting hairs here, so I'll be generous with the score. Unique and elegant. 1,100 half bottles produced. Barbadillo has turned into one of the most dynamic wineries from the Sherry district since the arrival of Armando Guerra, a well-known ideologist and terroirist (among other things) from Sanlcar. He has devised some new wines and unearthed some of the treasures that have rested and been forgotten in their cellars for years. They have evolved from three Manzanilla bottlings in 2015 to 10 in 2022! They have 450 hectares of vineyards and control a further 500 hectares from growers. They have a huge range of wines and have 30,000 barrels in their 30 cellars in Sanlcar de Barrameda. They last bottled their oldest wines, the "Reliquias" in glass decanters in 2019. In November 2020, they presented the new format of these scarce and amazing wines that are now bottled once per year into half bottles. |
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| Price: | $ 135.95 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from Hi-Time Wine Cellars
| Address: |
250 Ogle Street Costa Mesa, CA 92627 United States |
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| Telephone (toll-free): | 800-331-3005 |
| Telephone (regular): | 949-650-8463 |
| Fax: | 949-631-6863 |
First added to 1000 Corks on October 5, 2022.
