Observations

The Soleras of our Very Old Sherries were established towards the end of the 19th Century. Each individually registered bottle of the "Valdespino V.O.S. Collection" represents over 100 years of careful selection by generations of expert oenologists. The result is a Sherry unique in character, intensity and complexity. Grapes come from our vineyards in the famous Pago Carrascal with their chalky soils, and the Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez wines are aged in solera before being judiciously blended together and aged in another solera dating from 1842, which has developed great complexity. The wine is bottled with an average age of over 25 years. It is dark mahogany in colour with an aromatic nose of nuts, dates, raisins, black chocolate and background hints of liquorice. On the palate it is rich, smooth and full bodied with an attractive sweetness which does not obscure the wine?s old Oloroso backbone.