{"title":"Sherry","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"lustau-amontillado-los-arcos-nv","title":"Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau Amontillado Los Arcos is a dry sherry from Jerez, made in the style that begins its life under flor and finishes exposed to air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmilio Lustau was founded in 1896 in Jerez de la Frontera and grew from a small family concern into one of the most respected houses in the region, known in particular for championing the almacenistas, the private stockholders who aged sherry in small cellars and sold it on to the great firms. Amontillado starts as a fino, fortified lightly and aged for years beneath a living veil of flor yeast; once that veil is allowed to die away, the wine is fortified again and continues ageing in contact with air through a solera, a fractional system in which older casks are topped up with younger wine and no cask is ever fully emptied. The grape is Palomino.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe lightly chilled, at around 12 degrees, with consommé, jamón, aged cheese or roasted almonds; an opened bottle keeps well for some weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031254069307,"sku":"LUSARC6","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-amontillado-los-arcos-nv.png?v=1787318276"},{"product_id":"lustau-east-india-solera-500ml-nv","title":"Lustau East India Solera 500mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau East India Solera is a sweet sherry from Jerez that takes its name from one of the stranger discoveries in the history of wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries casks of sherry were carried as ballast on ships bound for the East Indies, and merchants found that the wine came back improved by months of heat and motion in the hold. Some began sending it on the round trip deliberately, and the style became known as East India. Lustau, founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1896, recreates it by ageing an oloroso in the warmest part of the bodega and blending it with sweet wine made from sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes, the whole matured through a solera. The result is a rich, oxidative sherry of the sort that once travelled halfway around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is best served at around 13 degrees with dark chocolate, blue cheese, dried fruit or walnuts, and will keep for months once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031254134843,"sku":"LUSORI506","price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-east-india-solera-500ml-nv.png?v=1787318273"},{"product_id":"lustau-fino-jarana-solera-familiar-nv","title":"Lustau Fino Jarana Solera Familiar NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau Fino Jarana Solera Familiar is a dry fino from Jerez de la Frontera, the most delicate style of sherry and the one that depends entirely on a living yeast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmilio Lustau was founded in 1896 and is among the houses most closely associated with the traditional cellars of Jerez. Fino is made from Palomino, fermented out to full dryness and fortified only to about fifteen per cent, low enough for a film of flor yeast to form on the surface of the wine in the butt. The flor feeds on the wine, seals it from the air and shapes it over several years of ageing in a solera, where casks of different ages are blended by successive fractional transfers so that the finished wine is always a continuous average of what came before. Jerez's damp Atlantic air keeps the flor alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe properly cold, at around 7 degrees, in a decent-sized glass with olives, almonds, jamón or fried fish, and treat an opened bottle as a white wine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031266881595,"sku":"LUSJAR6","price":34.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-fino-jarana-solera-familiar-nv.png?v=1787318275"},{"product_id":"lustau-oloroso-vors-30-years-old-500ml-nv","title":"Lustau Oloroso VORS 30 Years Old 500mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau Oloroso VORS 30 Years Old is a dry sherry from Jerez carrying the region's highest age classification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOloroso is the style that never sees flor: the wine is fortified above about seventeen per cent, too strong for the yeast veil to form, and so it ages in cask in full contact with air from the beginning. Over decades a portion evaporates through the wood and what remains grows steadily more concentrated. VORS, from the Latin vinum optimum rare signatum, is reserved for wines with a certified average age of at least thirty years, a claim the Consejo Regulador of Jerez verifies by laboratory analysis before it may appear on the label. Very little qualifies. Lustau, founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1896, draws these bottlings from its oldest soleras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is best served at around 14 degrees in a small glass, with aged cheese, game or nothing at all, and will hold for months after opening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031267405883,"sku":"LUSVOO6","price":195.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-oloroso-vors-30-years-old-500ml-nv.png?v=1787318277"},{"product_id":"lustau-pedro-ximenez-san-emilio-nv","title":"Lustau Pedro Ximénez San Emilio NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau Pedro Ximénez San Emilio is a sweet sherry from Jerez made from grapes dried in the sun before they ever reach the press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez is harvested and then laid out on esparto mats in the open, where several days of Andalusian sun shrivel the bunches to raisins and concentrate their sugar enormously. What little juice can be extracted is so dense that fermentation barely begins before it is arrested by fortification, leaving a wine with several hundred grams of residual sugar per litre. It is then aged oxidatively through a solera, gathering colour and depth over the years. Lustau, founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1896, is one of the houses that kept the style in the public eye when sherry itself was out of fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe lightly chilled, at around 13 degrees, in a small glass, or pour it over vanilla ice cream; it keeps for months once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031267602491,"sku":"LUSXEM6","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-pedro-ximenez-san-emilio-nv.png?v=1787318275"},{"product_id":"lustau-pedro-ximenez-san-emilio-375ml-nv","title":"Lustau Pedro Ximénez San Emilio 375mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau Pedro Ximénez San Emilio is a sweet sherry from Jerez made from grapes dried in the sun before they ever reach the press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez is harvested and then laid out on esparto mats in the open, where several days of Andalusian sun shrivel the bunches to raisins and concentrate their sugar enormously. What little juice can be extracted is so dense that fermentation barely begins before it is arrested by fortification, leaving a wine with several hundred grams of residual sugar per litre. It is then aged oxidatively through a solera, gathering colour and depth over the years. Lustau, founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1896, is one of the houses that kept the style in the public eye when sherry itself was out of fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe lightly chilled, at around 13 degrees, in a small glass, or pour it over vanilla ice cream; it keeps for months once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031267897403,"sku":"LUSXEM37","price":27.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-pedro-ximenez-san-emilio-375ml-nv.png?v=1787318276"},{"product_id":"lustau-rare-amontillado-escuadrilla-375ml-nv","title":"Lustau Rare Amontillado Escuadrilla 375mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau Rare Amontillado Escuadrilla is a dry amontillado from Jerez drawn from an old solera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmontillado has two lives. It begins as a fino, fortified lightly so that a veil of flor yeast can form and protect it from the air, and spends years ageing that way; when the flor eventually dies, the wine is fortified again and continues in cask in full contact with oxygen, growing darker and more concentrated with each passing year. The longer that second stage runs, the rarer the wine becomes, since a proportion is lost to evaporation through the wood. Lustau, founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1896, reserves the Rare designation for bottlings from its older soleras. The grape, as always in dry sherry, is Palomino.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is best served at around 13 degrees in a small glass with consommé, aged cheese, jamón or roasted almonds, and an opened bottle will hold its form for several weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031268126779,"sku":"LUSESC37","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-rare-amontillado-escuadrilla-375ml-nv.png?v=1787318275"},{"product_id":"lustau-vors-pedro-ximenez-500ml-nv","title":"Lustau Vors Pedro Ximénez 500mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau Vors Pedro Ximénez is a sweet sherry from Jerez carrying the region's highest age classification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez grapes are laid out on esparto mats after picking and left in the Andalusian sun until they shrivel to raisins, concentrating their sugar to an extraordinary degree. The thick juice is fortified almost immediately, leaving hundreds of grams of sugar per litre, and the wine then ages oxidatively in cask through a solera. VORS, from vinum optimum rare signatum, may be used only for wines whose certified average age exceeds thirty years, a figure the Consejo Regulador of Jerez verifies by laboratory analysis. Decades in wood cost a great deal to evaporation, so quantities are tiny. Lustau was founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1896.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is best served at around 13 degrees in a small glass, alone or with dark chocolate and hard cheeses, and keeps for months once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031279071291,"sku":"LUSVPX506","price":186.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-vors-pedro-ximenez-500ml-nv.png?v=1787318274"},{"product_id":"lustau-en-rama-fino-del-puerto-500ml-2022","title":"Lustau ‘En Rama’ Fino del Puerto 500mL 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau 'En Rama' Fino del Puerto is an unfiltered fino drawn straight from the butt in El Puerto de Santa María, on the Bay of Cádiz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFino is made from Palomino, fermented dry and fortified only to about fifteen per cent so that a film of flor yeast can form and live on the surface of the wine in cask. El Puerto de Santa María is one of the three towns of the sherry triangle, and its position on the coast keeps the cellars cool and humid, so the flor there stays thick through the year. En rama means in the raw: instead of being clarified and filtered before bottling, the wine is drawn from selected casks and bottled with little or no treatment, which is how sherry was drunk in the bodega itself. Sacas are made in small lots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt should be served properly cold, at around 7 degrees, with olives, almonds, jamón or fried fish, and drunk within a few days of opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031279136827,"sku":"LUSFDP22506","price":38.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-en-rama-fino-del-puerto-500ml-2022.png?v=1787318275"},{"product_id":"lustau-en-rama-fino-del-puerto-500ml-2023","title":"Lustau ‘En Rama’ Fino del Puerto 500mL 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eLustau 'En Rama' Fino del Puerto is an unfiltered fino drawn straight from the butt in El Puerto de Santa María, on the Bay of Cádiz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFino is made from Palomino, fermented dry and fortified only to about fifteen per cent so that a film of flor yeast can form and live on the surface of the wine in cask. El Puerto de Santa María is one of the three towns of the sherry triangle, and its position on the coast keeps the cellars cool and humid, so the flor there stays thick through the year. En rama means in the raw: instead of being clarified and filtered before bottling, the wine is drawn from selected casks and bottled with little or no treatment, which is how sherry was drunk in the bodega itself. Sacas are made in small lots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt should be served properly cold, at around 7 degrees, with olives, almonds, jamón or fried fish, and drunk within a few days of opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031279267899,"sku":"LUSFDP23506","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-en-rama-fino-del-puerto-500ml-2022.png?v=1787318275"},{"product_id":"valdespino-contrabandista-amontillado-sherry-gift-box-nv","title":"Valdespino Contrabandista Amontillado Sherry Gift Box NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Contrabandista Amontillado Sherry Gift Box is a medium style Amontillado from Jerez, from one of the oldest houses in the sherry trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn Amontillado begins life as a fino, ageing under the layer of flor yeast that grows on the surface of the wine in cask; when the flor dies away, the wine is left in contact with air and continues to mature oxidatively, and it is that double life that separates it from both fino and oloroso. Valdespino has been in Jerez since the fifteenth century by its own account and is one of the few houses to have kept the slower, older ways of working, including patient ageing through the solera, in which wine is drawn from the oldest scale of casks and replaced from younger ones so that no single year stands alone. Contrabandista is finished with a measure of Pedro Ximénez, which brings it into the medium category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe lightly chilled, at 12 to 14°C, with cured ham, almonds, hard cheese or mushroom dishes; presented here in a gift box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031784419387,"sku":"VALCON6GB","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-contrabandista-amontillado-sherry-gift-box-nv.png?v=1787318546"},{"product_id":"valdespino-inocente-fino-375ml-nv","title":"Valdespino Inocente Fino 375mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Inocente Fino is one of the very few single vineyard sherries made, and one of the last finos still fermented in cask.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine comes from Macharnudo Alto, a high pago north of Jerez whose chalk white albariza soils are among the most highly rated in the region, and the Palomino Fino is grown there rather than blended from across the zone. Valdespino, a Jerez house whose origins are traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, ferments Inocente in old oak butts rather than stainless steel, a practice almost every other bodega abandoned decades ago, then ages it biologically under flor through a long solera. The flor consumes oxygen and alcohol in the cask and shields the wine from air, which is what keeps a fino pale and dry, and it must be fed by regular refreshment from younger casks to stay alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe properly cold, at 7 to 9°C, in a white wine glass with olives, almonds, jamón or fried fish, and treat an opened bottle like a fresh white and finish it within a few days.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031784550459,"sku":"VALINF3712","price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-inocente-fino-375ml-nv.png?v=1787318543"},{"product_id":"valdespino-pedro-ximenez-el-candado-nv","title":"Valdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado is a sweet sherry from Jerez, sold with the small padlock on the neck that gives it its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez is made by laying the picked grapes out in the sun until they shrivel, concentrating the sugar to a point at which fermentation can barely begin; the must is fortified early and then aged in a solera, where wine passes through a series of casks over many years and the oldest scale is never fully emptied. The result is among the sweetest wines made anywhere, carrying several times the sugar of a conventional dessert wine. Valdespino is one of the oldest bodegas in Jerez, with a history traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, and has stayed with long cask ageing rather than the shortcuts available to a modern producer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe cool, at around 13°C, in a small glass with chocolate, blue cheese or dried fruit, or poured over vanilla ice cream; the sugar preserves an opened bottle for months.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031795724347,"sku":"VALPEC6","price":41.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-pedro-ximenez-el-candado-nv.png?v=1787318544"},{"product_id":"valdespino-pedro-ximenez-el-candado-375ml-nv","title":"Valdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado 375mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado is a sweet sherry from Jerez, sold with the small padlock on the neck that gives it its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez is made by laying the picked grapes out in the sun until they shrivel, concentrating the sugar to a point at which fermentation can barely begin; the must is fortified early and then aged in a solera, where wine passes through a series of casks over many years and the oldest scale is never fully emptied. The result is among the sweetest wines made anywhere, carrying several times the sugar of a conventional dessert wine. Valdespino is one of the oldest bodegas in Jerez, with a history traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, and has stayed with long cask ageing rather than the shortcuts available to a modern producer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe cool, at around 13°C, in a small glass with chocolate, blue cheese or dried fruit, or poured over vanilla ice cream; the sugar preserves an opened bottle for months.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031796117563,"sku":"VALPEC37","price":27.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-pedro-ximenez-el-candado-nv.png?v=1787318544"},{"product_id":"valdespino-pedro-ximenez-yellow-label-nv","title":"Valdespino Pedro Ximénez Yellow Label NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Pedro Ximénez Yellow Label is a sweet Pedro Ximénez sherry from Jerez, made in the sun dried style used in Andalucia for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez grapes are picked and then spread on mats in the open to raisin, which concentrates their sugar so heavily that fermentation stops almost as soon as it starts; the wine is fortified and passed into a solera, the fractional blending system in which casks are partly drawn and refilled from younger scales year after year, so that the finished wine carries something of every stage it has been through. Valdespino is one of the historic bodegas of Jerez, with a lineage traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, and has held to long cask ageing. Sherry of this kind is bottled when the bodega judges it ready rather than according to a vintage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at around 13°C in a small glass with chocolate desserts, blue cheese or dried fruit, or over ice cream; an opened bottle will keep for months.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031796445243,"sku":"VALPEX6","price":29.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-pedro-ximenez-yellow-label-nv.png?v=1787318543"},{"product_id":"valdespino-vos-medium-oloroso-solera-500ml-nv","title":"Valdespino VOS Medium Oloroso Solera 500mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino VOS Medium Oloroso Solera is an aged, lightly sweetened oloroso from Jerez carrying one of the region's certified age designations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVOS stands for Vinum Optimum Signatum, a category the Consejo Regulador awards only to sherries whose average age has been verified at more than twenty years; the tasting panels and laboratory analysis involved mean relatively few wines carry it. An oloroso is fortified high enough that the flor yeast never forms, so it spends its whole life in contact with air and concentrates slowly in cask as water evaporates through the wood. A medium oloroso is one adjusted before bottling with a measure of sweet wine, usually Pedro Ximénez. Valdespino is among the oldest houses in Jerez and holds some of the region's deepest reserves of very old soleras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at 13 to 14°C in a small glass with game, oxtail, aged cheese or roasted nuts; and it will keep for some weeks once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031796641851,"sku":"VALSOL506","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-vos-medium-oloroso-solera-500ml-nv.png?v=1787318541"},{"product_id":"toro-albala-don-px-seleccion-luxury-200ml-1980","title":"Toro Albalá Don PX Selección Luxury 200ml 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003eToro Albalá Don PX Selección Luxury is a vintage-dated Pedro Ximénez from Montilla-Moriles, drawn from the estate's museum stocks of very old sweet wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMontilla-Moriles lies inland from Córdoba in Andalucía, where heat and albariza soils push Pedro Ximénez to sugar levels Jerez rarely sees. The grapes are laid out to raisin in the sun before pressing, and the must is so concentrated that it barely ferments. Toro Albalá works from Aguilar de la Frontera and holds one of the deepest libraries of vintage-dated PX in Spain. The museum releases are the most profound and concentrated wines in that library: the Selección bottlings were vinified by the second generation and by Antonio Sánchez Romero, third generation and current head of the estate, while the rarer Convento Selección comes from the oldest and finest lots and the Ginés Liébana label covers older parcels bought in and raised at the bodega. Decades in cask leave the wine dark and viscous, with a savoury depth that sets it well apart from younger blended PX.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small measure is plenty, and an opened bottle will keep for months if stored cool. 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Palo cortado is the least predictable of the fortified styles: a wine that began life under flor as a fino would, then lost its veil and finished its ageing oxidatively, ending up with the aromatic lift of an amontillado and the weight of an oloroso. The Selección bottlings were vinified by the second generation and by Antonio Sánchez Romero, third-generation head of the estate, and are held back as vintage-dated releases rather than blended through a solera. Decades in cask at Aguilar de la Frontera concentrate the wine considerably, and at 22 per cent it is a dry, deeply savoury and very intense thing rather than a gentle one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePour a small measure and expect an opened bottle to keep for months at cellar temperature; serve at 13–14°C with consommé, aged hard cheese or salted nuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Within the museum programme the Convento Selección bottlings sit at the top: produced by the first two generations of the family, they represent the finest, oldest and rarest selections held in the cellars. The grapes are sun-dried to raisins before pressing, so the must starts at an extreme sugar concentration, and the wine is fortified and then left in cask at Aguilar de la Frontera for decades. Evaporation over that time takes a heavy toll on volume and leaves behind something intensely concentrated. What separates these old bottlings from the younger blended PX is not sweetness but savour: the sugar is still there, but it sits under layers of dried fruit, roasted and balsamic character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall serves only, and the bottle will keep for months, even years, once opened if stored cool; serve at 10–12°C with dark chocolate, coffee puddings or blue cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The Selección wines were vinified by the second generation of the family and by Antonio Sánchez Romero, the third-generation head of the estate. As with all the Don PX bottlings, the grapes are laid out to dry in the sun until they raisin, concentrating the sugars to the point where fermentation is minimal and the wine is fortified early. It then sits in cask at Aguilar de la Frontera for decades, losing volume steadily to evaporation. The result is a wine of considerable density that has traded some of the primary sweetness of a young PX for a more savoury, layered and complex character. 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The difference here is the grape: where Jerez uses Palomino for its dry styles, Montilla works with Pedro Ximénez, and the intense summer heat ripens it so far that the base wine reaches high alcohol on its own. Like all of Toro Albalá's wines this is 100 per cent Pedro Ximénez, drawn from a solera begun in 1922. The average age of the wine at bottling is 35 years, five more than VORS requires in Jerez, and at 21 per cent alcohol it has not been fortified at all: the sugar levels at picking and the natural evaporation of a long oxidative ageing account for the strength. It is salty and nutty in its intensity, but finely textured with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady to drink and stable for months once opened. Serve lightly chilled at around 12-14°C with jamón, almonds, aged Manchego or a clear consommé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Toro Albalá sets aside select lots of its best vintage wines for release under the Gran Reserva label. The grapes are sun-dried before pressing, the fermentation is arrested with grape spirit while the must is still intensely sweet, and the wine is then filled into oak barrels and sealed, each barrel left in its single-vintage state for decades rather than being refreshed through a solera. Controlled exposure to oxygen over that time drives the transformation: colour darkens, texture thickens, acidity rises and nutty, iodine, rancio notes build over the raisin and fruitcake sweetness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFully mature and needing no cellaring, it keeps almost indefinitely once opened; serve at 12-14°C in small glasses with dark chocolate, blue cheese or vanilla ice cream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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