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A pale straw colour, clean intense aromas of fruit and cut grass. The taste is dry yet soft encompassing classic salty notes on the palate with refreshing bitterness on the finish.
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Rich and long with greater depth and complexity than a standard Fino. Appealing salty tang and a long citrus finish. Very fresh and pure.
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Fresh and intense, this is a really nice vivid Fino sherry with bright, lively, nutty, salty notes. Just delicious.
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Bursting with unmistakeable savoury, nutty and saltiness that’s the hallmark of Manzanilla. Aromatic, intriguing and inviting. Sensuously textured rather than brittle, absolutely bone dry, aristocratic and very poised.
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Soft, subtle and a bit honeyed on the bouquet with red bush tea and medicinal notes. Warm, spicy, mature palate with an attractively tangy character. Very long and concentrated finish.
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Rated An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. This is an extreme wine, ultra-mega-super concentrated. It is unbelievably powerful, both on the bouquet and the palate, full of umami, with sweet cinnamon, Christmas cake, camphor, petrol, lemongrass, Belgian chocolate and butter. Incredibly complex and rich, sweet, balanced and smooth.
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This early release wine is not barrel aged or blended, it is a pure, fresh, grapey example of Pedro and captures all the tanginess of the style before rancio sets in. The palate shows concentrated toffee, caramel and dried fruit notes and the finish is warm and lingering.
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Balsamic on the bouquet with pronounced notes of carob bean, marinades, liquorice, and raisined plums. These fragrances suddenly evolve into marked herbal fragrances, as that of Leyland cypress, dry banana leaf or spices like Madagascar pepper. Evocative of toasted flavors, caramel and honey. Elegant and long in the palate, with retronasal effect that releases raisined plums again and the complexity of raisined fruits. Indeed, a sweet wine with a perfect balance.
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Balsamic on the bouquet with pronounced notes of carob bean, marinades, liquorice, and raisined plums. These fragrances suddenly evolve into marked herbal fragrances, as that of Leyland cypress, dry banana leaf or spices like Madagascar pepper. Evocative of toasted flavors, caramel and honey. Elegant and long in the palate, with retronasal effect that releases raisined plums again and the complexity of raisined fruits. Indeed, a sweet wine with a perfect balance.
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Toro Albal’s Elctrico solera produces a superb, complex and powerful Fino with aromas of almond, green-fruit and iodine. ‘Fino Elctrico’ is made from 100% Pedro Ximinez grapes and offers a soft mid-palate and round finish that sets it apart from its Fino brethren in Jerez. However the bright, chalky crackle, so distinctive of the Fino style, shines through.
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A good depth of colour for a Manzanilla. Nice bouquet, fresh and herby. Good rounded palate, with weight and an appealing rounded fleshiness, balanced by a fresh crisp acidity.
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Pale sandalwood/caramel in hue, with a fresh, brisk, redolently woody aroma. Though appearing to teeter on the verge of volatility by virtue of being so dry and so woody, the blue cheese notes (cachel blue / dolcelatte / cabrales / stilton) lift it into an entirely different level.