Fernando de Castilla Antique Fino 50cl
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Fernando de Castilla Antique Fino 50cl
HED8404
50 cl
17%
£30.00
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Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castillo was founded in the 1960s but was purchased and revamped in 1999 to become one of the most interesting and highest quality bodegas in the Jerez D.O. The Antique series of sherries is a collection of wines drawn from individual soleras bottled without fining or filtration to ensure maximum purity and character. This is a beautifully fragrant and fresh Fino aged traditionally under a layer of flor with an average age of 9 years. On the palate it is intense and focussed with intense notes of bruised apple, sourdough, citrus peel and salted almonds. A wonderful aperitif or paired with Manchego cheese or jamon.
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Robert Parker
The NV Antique Fino is eight years of average age when bottled; it’s fragrant and perfumed, feminine and subtle, with dry flowers and a rare balance between old and young. The palate shows a much more serious wine, pungent, intense, saline, sharp and at the same time delicate, complex and long, most probably because it’s fortified to 17% at the time of bottling, something that was common in the past, but that almost nobody does anymore. A most unusual old-style Fino. Bravo! 4,000 bottles produced yearly. Drink 2013-2018.
Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla were created in 1972, but had a history going back to 1837. In 1999 the company was sold to a group of investors lead by Norwegian Jan Pettersen, who had worked previously at Osborne for 16 years. In the end Pettersen took control of the company, enlarging the business and taking the quality of its wines to the very top. This is a small- to medium-sized bodega (1,000 botas, capacity for 200,000 liters and selling 250,000 bottles per year), clearly focused on quality. The Antique range that I have tasted here, sold in half-liter bottles, represents their top of the range, and even if it has no official age certification, the wines are certainly old. All wines, regardless of style or category follow a clear line; they are all on the elegant side, balanced, clean and easy-to-understand wines.
Imported by David Bowler; www.bowlerwine.com
Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla were created in 1972, but had a history going back to 1837. In 1999 the company was sold to a group of investors lead by Norwegian Jan Pettersen, who had worked previously at Osborne for 16 years. In the end Pettersen took control of the company, enlarging the business and taking the quality of its wines to the very top. This is a small- to medium-sized bodega (1,000 botas, capacity for 200,000 liters and selling 250,000 bottles per year), clearly focused on quality. The Antique range that I have tasted here, sold in half-liter bottles, represents their top of the range, and even if it has no official age certification, the wines are certainly old. All wines, regardless of style or category follow a clear line; they are all on the elegant side, balanced, clean and easy-to-understand wines.
Imported by David Bowler; www.bowlerwine.com
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