Valdespino Palo Cortado Viejo C.P. VOS (50cl)

£41.75

Sold in multiples of 6
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Key info
CountrySpain
RegionJerez
GrapePalomino
TypeFortified
VintageNV
Alcohol20% ABV
BodyFull
SweetnessDry
Age-worthyComplexNutty
Pairs with — game, hard cheese

The wine

Medium mahogany. Delicate on the nose, with intense dried fruits, hazelnuts and walnuts. Spices, vanilla and more dried fruit on the palate, full bodied and long.

Palo cortado is the rarest style in sherry: a wine that begins under flor as a fino, loses its veil, and finishes oxidatively, ending with the delicacy of one style and the depth of the other. VOS denotes an average age of at least twenty years, verified by the Consejo Regulador. Fermented in 600-litre American oak butts.

The producer

Valdespino is one of the oldest and most revered names in Jerez, a sherry house whose roots reach back centuries. It is celebrated above all for its single-vineyard bottlings and its refusal to compromise, making sherries of a purity and depth that connoisseurs treasure.

The jewel is the great albariza vineyard of Macharnudo Alto, source of the Inocente Fino, one of the last Finos still fermented in cask. Elsewhere the house draws on ancient soleras for Amontillados, Palo Cortados and Olorosos of extraordinary age, alongside a decadently sweet Pedro Ximénez.

From the bone-dry, saline Inocente and sea-fresh Manzanilla Deliciosa to the profound VOS bottlings and the sherry-based Herencia vermouth and quina, the range is a masterclass in the diversity of Jerez.

Historic, uncompromising and endlessly rewarding, Valdespino is sherry at its most serious. Discover a true benchmark of the region.

Frequently asked questions

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