Extraviejo — literally «very old» — signals the extreme age category within El Maestro Sierra’s Oloroso range. The 1/7 designation identifies the specific barrel: one of seven in a solera whose average age is estimated at over sixty years. This is wine of extraordinary concentration and complexity, produced in quantities so small that it barely registers commercially.
The colour is nearly opaque: a deep, dark mahogany with amber edges. The nose is profound — walnut oil, dried fig, ancient leather, tobacco, resin and a warm, earthy depth that suggests decades of slow concentration in old wood. The palate is full and intensely complex, with exceptional acidity keeping the wine alive. The finish is enormously long and savoury. A wine that belongs in a very small category of sherries that transcend any definition of what fortified wine can be.