Regulatory Category: Jerez-Xérès-Sherry

Palo Cortado Cardenal VORS

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Cardenal Palo Cortado VORS Single Vineyard is Bodegas Real Tesoro, Valdespino y La Guita’s palo cortado vors expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records approx. 50 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 origin followed by oxidative ageing, with an age statement of Approx. 50 years, at 22% alcohol and in 50cl. No caveat beyond current price, stock and bottle-level verification.

Amber-mahogany, combining citrus peel and hazelnut lift with polished wood, breadth and a long dry finish. Aromatic finesse and Oloroso-like breadth define the style.

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Pedro Ximénez El Candado

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El Candado is Valdespino’s classic Pedro Ximénez, a sweet oxidative Sherry presented under one of the house’s most recognisable labels. The current technical profile records 100% Pedro Ximénez, around 10 years of oxidative ageing, 17% alcohol and a 75cl format.

Dark mahogany, with pronounced aromas of dried fruits, raisins, toffee, dark chocolate, coffee and spice. Full and luscious on the palate, it is smooth, sweet and velvety, with a sumptuous texture and a lingering finish.

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Pedro Ximénez Niños VORS Valdespino

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Niños Pedro Ximénez VORS is Bodegas Real Tesoro, Valdespino y La Guita’s pedro ximénez vors expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records more than 30 years. The profile remains tied to the exact current bottling and release. The current documentation records it as made from 100% Pedro Ximénez, aged through oxidative ageing in the solera system, with an age statement of More than 30 years, at 22% alcohol and in 50cl. No caveat beyond current price, stock and bottle-level verification.

Very dark mahogany, with raisins, figs, molasses and cocoa; dense, sweet and long. Concentration is balanced by freshness and oxidative complexity.

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Moscatel Toneles

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Toneles is among the most unusual wines produced anywhere in the world. It is a Moscatel sherry — a variety rarely seen at this age — aged in a single enormous tonel (a large wooden vessel of several thousand litres) rather than the standard 600-litre bota. Only one hundred bottles are drawn from this single vessel each year, and they are released sporadically rather than annually, when Valdespino determines the wine is at the right moment.

The age is estimated at approximately one hundred years. The colour is a deep, dark amber-brown. The nose is extraordinary: aged muscatel grape, candied orange peel, beeswax, old resin, dark honey and a floral note — orange blossom — that, remarkably, has survived a century of ageing. The palate is sweet and intensely concentrated, with the aromatics of the Moscatel grape still just visible beneath layers of oxidative complexity. A wine that defies description, comparison and category. A genuine relic of nineteenth-century winemaking, still alive in a Jerez cellar.

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Palo Cortado VORS Lustau

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Palo Cortado VORS is Bodegas Lustau’s palo cortado vors expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records more than 30 years. The profile is kept edition-specific where the public documentation is incomplete. The current documentation records it as made from 100% Palomino Fino, aged through biological origin followed by oxidative ageing, with an age statement of More than 30 years, at 21% alcohol and in 50cl. No caveat beyond current stock and bottle-level verification.

Amber-mahogany, combining citrus peel and hazelnut lift with polished wood, breadth and a long dry finish. Aromatic finesse and Oloroso-like breadth define the style.

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Fino El Maestro Sierra

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El Maestro Sierra’s Fino is made in the same spirit that has guided the house since its foundation in 1830: with patience, minimal intervention and an absolute respect for traditional methods. At around five years of age, it is aged in the cellar’s old American oak butts under an active layer of flor — butts that were, in many cases, made by the bodega’s founder, José Antonio Sierra, himself a master cooper by trade.

The colour is a pale straw gold, bright and clean. The nose is fresh and precise: chamomile, green almond, a light citrus note and the characteristic clean yeast of healthy flor. The palate is bone dry, with a saline mineral quality and a long, pleasantly bitter finish. An honest, traditional Fino of real character — the foundation upon which the bodega’s more extraordinary VORS wines are built.

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Oloroso Don Nuño

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Oloroso Don Nuño is Bodegas Lustau’s oloroso expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records approx. 12 years. The profile is kept edition-specific where the public documentation is incomplete. The current documentation records it as made from 100% Palomino Fino, aged through oxidative ageing, with an age statement of Approx. 12 years, at 20% alcohol and in 75cl. No caveat beyond current stock and bottle-level verification.

Mahogany, with walnut, leather, spice and seasoned wood; dry, broad and persistent. Its breadth and warmth are framed by a dry, savoury finish.

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Fino En Rama El Maestro Sierra

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Valdespino’s en rama release brings the unfiltered character of the cellar directly to the bottle. Drawn from the Inocente-adjacent soleras with minimal intervention, it offers a more vivid, more pungent and more complex profile than the filtered version.

The nose is expressive and direct: chamomile, fresh yeast, chalk and a distinctive mineral note from the albariza soils. The palate has a broader, more textural presence, with the bitterness and salinity of a wine that has seen no filtering. The finish is long and intensely saline. This is Fino as it tastes in the bodega, before the processes of preparation for commercial release intervene. Best consumed cold and fresh, within weeks of bottling.

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Oloroso VORS

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Oloroso VORS is Bodegas Lustau’s oloroso vors expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records more than 30 years. The profile is kept edition-specific where the public documentation is incomplete. The current documentation records it as made from 100% Palomino Fino, aged through oxidative ageing, with an age statement of More than 30 years, at 21% alcohol and in 50cl. No caveat beyond current stock and bottle-level verification.

Mahogany, with walnut, leather, spice and seasoned wood; dry, broad and persistent. Its breadth and warmth are framed by a dry, savoury finish.

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Amontillado 12 Años El Maestro Sierra

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El Maestro Sierra’s 12 Años Amontillado bridges the biological and oxidative worlds with characteristic directness. The wine spends approximately six years under flor as a Fino before being fortified to eighteen degrees and transferred to an oxidative programme in the old butts of the Jerez cellar. The result is an Amontillado of around twelve years total age.

The colour is a warm, clear amber. The nose shows the biological origins clearly: a clean, saline freshness underpinning the emerging nutty, oxidative character. Almonds, light caramel, a hint of dried herbs. The palate is dry, well-structured and precise, with good natural acidity and a long, slightly nutty finish. A wine that repays careful attention and improves considerably with time in the glass and time in an open bottle.

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