Fantastic lunch yesterday at the wonderful Taberna Verdejo started with a nice surprise and a cheeky snifter after bumping into none other than Antonio Barbadillo and Dolores Sanchez at the bar. And snifters don’t come any cheekier than this: the long awaited Palo Cortado. Antonio was cagey about its origins and would only tell me … Continue reading Palo Cortado Sacristia AB – Saca Única
Once again, just look at the colour of that. I write often about what a special place Territorio Era is and this sort of thing is one of the (many) reasons: the chance to try a special six year old manzanilla like this one. Antonio Barbadillo started selecting and bottling limited releases of manzanillas in … Continue reading Manzanilla Sacristia AB – 1a saca de 2011
Another of these special bottlings by Antonio Barbadillo – one of the most entertaining and knowledgeable blokes you could hope to meet. I bumped into him yesterday, that gave me a hankering to try one of these wines again and, as luck would have it, they happen to have this bottle in Territorio Era. These releases … Continue reading Amontillado Sacristia AB
My last glass of wine of an enjoyable lunch – this one at the bar of Territorio ERA and a saca that I hadn’t tried before. A really nice, elegant manzanilla no doubt – a nice bright entry, sapidity, flavour and nicely integtrated salinity, even a bit of creaminess, and a long mouthwatering finish. I will be honest … Continue reading Manzanilla Sacristia AB, Spring 2016
Pictured here with a nice bottle of 2008 Arbois Pupillin on the bar at – where else – Angelita Madrid. (The blurring is not intentional.) The reason I ordered this was that on another visit to Angelita in the summer I incorrectly identified (a different saca of) the Sacristia AB as a Jura and I was curious … Continue reading Manzanilla Sacristia AB – 2a saca de 2015
A fella thought he had picked up the latest release – the 1a saca 2016 – but failed to read the smallprint and here we are with an old favourite. In my defense, having tried the 2016 recently I knew immediately that this wasn’t it. This one is tasty though: it has opened up a … Continue reading Manzanilla Sacristia AB, 1a saca de 2015
I have had mixed experiences wih these (the 1a saca de 2013 (preblog), the 2a saca de 2013, the 1a saca de 2014, the 2a saca de 2014, and the 1a saca de 2015) but it was only recently that I found out that the these sacas are from different bodegas. According to this piece … Continue reading Manzanilla Sacristia AB – 2a saca 2012
The Sacristia AB series are wines that have been selected by Antonio Barbadillo Mateos (a scion of the Barbadillo family but independent from the Barbadillo group). The Sacristia AB website surprisingly doesn’t have much technical information on the wines but I gather that these manzanillas, like some other illustrious bottlings, are sourced from Sanchez Ayala. In … Continue reading Manzanilla Sacristia AB 2a saca de 2014
Conscience brings me back to this having failed to pay due care and attention to it during a long and riotous night last week. This is one of the wines of the week at the superb Restaurante Vinoteca Garcia de la Navarra. Darkish in colour and just a little dull rather than crystalline. On the … Continue reading Manzanilla Sacristia AB – primera saca 2015
It is the colour of regal old gold. Fresh open it is not as aromatic as I expected – haybales but a little muted. Also a little muted on the palate – not at all the intense herbal flavours I remember. Not sure what to make of this. Has it tired out or merely gone … Continue reading Sacristia AB Manzanilla – segunda saca 2013
