Bodegas Osborne - Rare Palo Cortado Sherry Pap 1911 (500ml)

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Founded in 1772, in El Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz), Bodegas Osborne is one of Spain's most distinguished wine and sherry producers and one of the oldest family-owned businesses in the world. Since those early years, Osborne has remained in family hands. Today, Mr. Tomás Osborne Gamero-Cívico, the fifth Count of Osborne, directs the company as Chairman of the Board of Directors. They place an extremely high value on quality and consistency to offer consumers exceptional wines with equally attractive pricing.

Osborne owns nearly 400 hectares, much in the Balbaina district of Jerez Superior, and fairly recently acquired the old Domecq VORS soleras. Their vast company portfolio also encompasses the well reputed Bodegas Montecillo wines from Rioja, Solaz wines from Tierra de Castilla and Dominio de Malpica wines also from Tierra de Castilla. Brandy, port and other distinguished spirits as well as delicious Iberian pork products, bottled water and TOROXL energy drinks, round out the comprehensive portfolio. Really, Osborne is more of an empire than a company.

This Palo Cortado is part of the personal stores of the Osborne family, until very recently not made commercially available. At least 30 years average age at bottling from 3 criaderas set in 1911 and forgotten at the winery for decades. Only 50 botas remain in these criaderas. Miniscule amounts are bottled, and fewer every year because of the shrinking solera that feeds it. From the addition of PX, this also has a hint of sweetness which is very rare in a Palo Cortado.

"The NV Rare Sherry Palo Cortado Solera P (delta) P VORS produced from Palomino in a solera created in 1911, has a deep mahogany color with green tints and an unusual, very complex nose of Cuban cigar, incense, sandalwood, dried herbs, balsamic notes and a spirity touch . The palate is full-bodied, round, intense and concentrated, ending clearly off-dry, with some noticeable sweetness, which often balances the extreme aggressive character of the very old and concentrated dry wines."-Luis Gutierrez