Tasting Notes
Expert reviews of Sherry and Manzanilla wines. Scored 0-100, with producer, vintage and buying recommendation.
Moscatel Toneles
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…
Fino El Maestro Sierra
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…
Fino En Rama El Maestro Sierra
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…
Amontillado 12 Años El Maestro Sierra
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…
Amontillado 1830 VORS
This is one of the most extraordinary wines produced anywhere in the sherry triangle. The solera was started in 1830 — the year José Antonio Sierra founded the bodega —…
Amoroso (Medium)
Medium (Amoroso) is Bodegas El Maestro Sierra’s medium expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The current documentation records approx. 15-year oloroso blended with px, then further cask ageing.…
Oloroso 15 Años
Oloroso is Bodegas El Maestro Sierra’s oloroso expression within its current or recently verified portfolio. The profile is kept edition-specific where the public documentation is incomplete. The current documentation records…
Oloroso 1/14 VORS
The 1/14 designation refers to the single barrel from which this VORS Oloroso is drawn: one bota from a solera of fourteen. Average age exceeds fifty years; the formal VORS…
Oloroso Extraviejo 1/7 VORS
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…