Regulatory Category: Jerez-Xérès-Sherry

Amontillado Superior is Cayetano del Pino’s amontillado expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records 19 years. The profile remains tied to the exact current bottling and release. The current documentation records it as made from 100% Palomino Fino, aged through biological followed by oxidative ageing, with an age statement of 19 years, at 21% alcohol and in 75cl. Annual edition limited to 1,000 numbered bottles.

Amber, with hazelnut, dried citrus, iodine and seasoned wood; dry, lifted and persistent. Biological lift and oxidative depth remain in clear balance.

Amontillado VOS is Cayetano del Pino’s amontillado vos expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records approx. 24 years. The profile remains tied to the exact current bottling and release. The current documentation records it as made from 100% Palomino Fino, aged through biological followed by oxidative ageing, with an age statement of Approx. 24 years, at 19.5% alcohol and in 50cl. No caveat beyond current price, stock and bottle-level verification.

Amber, with hazelnut, dried citrus, iodine and seasoned wood; dry, lifted and persistent. Biological lift and oxidative depth remain in clear balance.

Napoleón is Hidalgo’s flagship Amontillado, named for the French emperor whose army was supplied with the wine during the Peninsular War. The bodega simultaneously sold wine with a Wellington label to the British forces on the other side — a piece of commercial pragmatism that perfectly captures the entrepreneurial spirit of the Sanlúcar trade. The Amontillado solera was founded at the end of the eighteenth century and is fed with Manzanilla Pasada Pastrana, giving it an unusually complex biological foundation.

The colour is a warm mahogany. The nose is elegant and precise: hazelnuts, caramel, a hint of toffee and a saline undertone from the Sanlúcar origins. The palate is dry, medium-bodied and well-structured, with good natural acidity, clear nutty flavour and a long, refined finish with hints of raisin and spice. At around twelve years of age, one of the most consistently excellent Amontillados at its price level in the Marco de Jerez.

The VORS version of Napoleón carries an average age of around forty years — a dramatic extension of the character established in the standard Napoleón, with four decades of additional patience applied to a wine that was already excellent in youth. Drawn from the oldest sections of the solera, bottled in half-bottles sealed with wax, it is one of the finest VORS Amontillados produced in Sanlúcar.

The nose is laden with caramelised pecans, beeswax, dark clove fruit, old leather and a thread of salinity that recalls the Manzanilla Pasada that once fed this solera. The palate is harmonious and extraordinarily complex, with lovely nervy acidity underpinning waves of nut, dried fruit and spice. The finish is very long, dry and savoury. It is a sherry so harmonious that critics have described it as almost criminal not to serve with food. A masterpiece of the Sanlúcar Amontillado tradition.