For me today’s Feria started and finished at the stand of Callejuela Vinos – but whereas I started with their newest, as yet unreleased project I had to finish with these old beauties. I utterly failed to take note of saca dates and any other kind of technical detail but the wines were as class … Continue reading Blanquito, La Casilla and El Cerro
Cracking dinner last night with a great friend, followed by some pretty poor snooker and some excellent wine. As you can see, two pairs of related wines. First a formidable double from Saint Julien – a Leoville Poyferré 2000 and a Leoville Barton 2003. They were fantastic – incredibly fresh, full flavoured and elegant wines. … Continue reading La Casilla and El Cerro: Elegant and more elegant even
After a couple of days without sherry it is a pleasure to tuck into this, a small production wine from La Callejuela (obtained from the Cuatrogatos wine club). It is an orange-brown colour and has a very powerful nose of alcoholic caramel and vanilla and maybe some marmalade, baked citrus in the background. On the palate … Continue reading Amontillado La Casilla
Part IV of the Cuatrogatos Wine Club Didactic Selection is upon us, bringing with it the oxygen action of oxidation. One of the things that is so striking about the wines of Jerez and Sanlucar (and indeed a number of other regions around Spain) is the coexistence of three distinct forms of ageing: biological ageing … Continue reading The Didactic Selection, part IV: oxygen strikes back
After a wallpapering induced hiatus the Cuatrogatos Wine Club Didactic Selection is back, and after Part I and Part II, it could only be Part III. And Part III is the manzanilla pasada. Because when you have a manzanilla pasada, an amontillado and an oloroso, one of the three wines is not as the others. … Continue reading The Didactic Selection, Part III: deeper under
There is just so much to like about Bodegas la Callejuela. It is hard to think of a more likeable couple of blokes than these big, friendly guys, and although at first glance they don’t look like the kind of hipsters you would imagine revolutionizing the scene in Jerez I can tell you noone is doing … Continue reading #4GWFEST2018 – Part 4 – the Callejuela single vineyard manzanillas
I am over the moon to report that elmundovino.com have chosen el Cerro oloroso as one of their three Wines of the Year. I tried it for the first time in November and loved it. Since then I have had another bottle and have not changed my opinion. Hats off, too, to Elmundovino – there are higher … Continue reading Elmundovino’s wines of the year including … El Cerro
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