This is one of the top wines around. It’s mere appearance can’t begin to tell the story. A wine with a big structure that is still rapier fine and beautifully balanced. A rare oloroso from Sanlúcar – from the guys at Callejuela, one of the new power houses. A dark brown in colour as you can see. The aromas … Continue reading Oloroso el Cerro
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
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
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
Love this – an oloroso by Callejuela that is deep and rich but light and alive. I do like the clear bottles and the way they let you see the colours of these wines. Having said that, in the bottle the wine is a rosy Horsechestnut brown although it seems a shade more yellow-brown in the … Continue reading El Cerro oloroso
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
Part II of the Cuatrogatos Wine Club Didactic Selection of Vinos Galacticos y Didacticos: la Charanga, la Choza, la Maruja, Camborio (or the special bottling thereof by Mr Alex Jules), Blanquito, Origen and el Cerro. Galacticos because they are all world class and Didacticos because they all tell a story that I believe is relevant … Continue reading The Didactic Selection, Part II: under the flor
A little while ago a colleague mentioned that he was keen to learn a little bit more about the wines of Jerez and wondered if I could recommend anything. As it happens, I could indeed, and thanks to the good offices of Federico Ferrer and his association of wine loving felines just days later my … Continue reading The Didactic Selection, Part I – blancos de albariza
A brief visit to an absolutely cracking wine bar in Bilbao – the legendary Cork, which was already a temple for sherry lovers when this blog was in short trousers and, despite the proliferation of competition since, has a selection of wines of the highest class. It is not often I go to a place … Continue reading Cork, Bilbao
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