Primitivo Quiles, D.O. Alicante
These wines may belong stylistically with the sherries, but they are NOT fortified so ...
Fondillon is the local appellation name for an old solera-aged style based on Monastrell. Rancio from long ageing in 1700 litre barrels; deep, nutty with roasted chestnut and floor polish aromatics develop with great elegance and lovely earthen astringency.
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Alicante |
$125.00 |
12 |
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Unfortified, this is just remarkably-managed in the cellar, to end up presenting as a wine of 16% natural alcohol + 60 years' age character, and still beautifully lively, graceful and elegant. It is lightly sweet, rather than a blockbuster PX style. Very long and easy, it is as much suited to drinking as an aperitif/afternoon tipple on ice as it is to the more obvious after-dinner liqueur slot. |
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Alicante |
$295.00 |
1 |
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Deep, nutty with roasted chestnut and floor polish aromatics, great elegance, lovely earthen astringency. At12 g/l, tastes quite dry. 16% a/v, is all natural - this remarkable wine is unfortified despite 60 years barrel-age character. Solera 1892 is extraordinarily rare - 100+ years of age, and only a hundred or so bottles taken out of solera each year. |
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Alicante |
$425.00 |
1 |
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RARE!? There are 102 bottles drawn of this every 2 years; TSA currently holds 17 of them! This is a single big barrel which started out as the 1892 Fondillon solera of Monastrell. It was aged as such for 50 years, but since then has spent 50 years being progressively topped with Moscatel EXTRA. Deep, long, figgy Monastrell is the spine, with the back half and finish given a sweet coating of dark Moscatel. MAD MAD wine and really, truly great. |
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