Petaca Marqués de Poley Amontillado Viejísimo Solera 1951

CATA's notes:

• Color: Amber to old gold, intense gold.
• Nose: Without shaking look 21 degrees of alcohol. The nose has a wide complexity of aromas especially nuts and spices. It reminds us of white pepper, toasted hazelnuts, cloves, nutmeg, as well as cabinetry or tobacco smoke. A second sniff takes us to notes of vermouth, dried leaves or cherries. A wine very rich in smell due to its long period in barrel.
• Mouth: In the mouth we will have a wine with a lot of complexity. With a bitter beginning to roasted nuts and a saline touch. It is a very long, intense wine that even leads finally to the Fino del lagar, which was its base before moving on to an oxidative aging. It is an eternal wine in the mouth.

Elaboration and aging:

Made with Pedro Ximenez grapes, the amontillado is the result of a rearing under a solera and criadera system that is obtained from the aging of the Fino under a veil of flowers in American oak boots. To obtain an Amontillado like this, the duration of oxidative aging must be at least 25 years.