Happy families because these two wines come from vaguely the same soleras – I say vaguely because while the La Guita en rama was apparently bottled from botas selected from the solera used to produce La Guita and has an average age of four and a half years, the Manzanilla Pasada, while sourced from the same bodega, is a … Continue reading Happy Families: La Guita en rama and la Bota 70
Have been meaning to have another crack at this since a memorable dinner with its maker, Eduardo Ojeda, a little while ago in Lavinia. Although I had really enjoyed it last January and again in March, for one reason or another I hadn’t come across it for ages until that dinner. It is a wine … Continue reading Manzanilla La Guita en rama, Octubre 2015
Second crack at one of these little bottles and all those same ingredients are there: the evolved colour, slightly metallic nose, the citrus notes, the briney background, the salinity, ozone and bitter, slightly drying finish. A mineral but flavorful and easy to drink wine. Tasting it again brought back memories of a vertical of La Guita – … Continue reading Manzanilla en rama La Guita October 2015
Just look at the colour of this. Pretty amazing colour for a four and a half year old manzanilla bottled a mere three months ago. Bears no resemblance to the classic La Guita manzanilla I have had litres and litres of in the sunshine over the years and in fact really reminds me of one I had … Continue reading Manzanilla en rama La Guita octubre 2015
Look at the colour of that. Rusty water, with a touch of rusty nail on the nose and palate (or is it suggestion?). Couldn’t help but think of the manzanilla en rama la Guita when I saw it, although unlike that second cousin this wine has acquired its colour from two years in the bottle … Continue reading Manzanilla Deliciosa en rama, May 2016
Another fascinating side by side (aka excuse to drink two quality wines together). And these are two quality Sanlucar wines. The Maruja manzanilla pasada (april 2017) and the La Guita en rama (october 2015). For all that they have in common they are also quite different: the Guita (probably the younger wine) is deeper in … Continue reading La Maruja and La Guita
A much more disciplined, if all too brief, visit to this excellent event this year. I had just over an hour and couldn’t spend as much time as I would have liked but still caught up with a lot of of bodegas and sampled a few cracking wines. Once again if the salon is anything … Continue reading The Salon de los Vinos Generosos: 2nd Edition
I read somewhere on twitter that a magnum is the ideal size for two people, provided that one isn’t drinking, and in the case of this wine at least I fully agree (my apologies for not giving the source but I didn’t take note and often get these things wrong). The guys at Coalla Gourmet had … Continue reading La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 70 – Magnum
I first came across Equipo Navazos back in 2012 when they were in their early 30s. The first wine I tried was the terrific La Bota de Palo Cortado 34 and I immediately bought up everything I could find from them and have been attempting – with limited success – to keep them for posteriy. However after … Continue reading La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 30 – Capataz Rivas
Writing up my notes from a splendid couple of wines by Equipo Navazos at lunch in Los Asturianos yesterday and this was the star of the show without doubt. First, though, just a moment of admiration for the camerawork here: just look at the way I have framed the reflection of the chorizo and morcilla … Continue reading La Bota de Palo Cortado 52, Sanlucar
