Bodegas Toro Albala Marques de Poley Oloroso En Rama 15 Anos

A year-round Christmas cake

Pedro Ximénez

$57.00

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Preserved Fruit and Mineral, Sweet Spice and Reductive & Oxidative Nuttiness

BODY: Medium +
DRYNESS: Dry
ACIDITY: Medium
TANNIN: Medium
ALCOHOL (%): High (More than 14%)

Origin: Andalucia (Montilla-Moriles & More), Spain

Grape Varietals:

Pedro Ximénez

Winemaking:

Fortification

Maturation: Solera Aging Oak Barrels

Awards:

WESTERN FOOD PAIRING
Thick beef stews or casseroles, American BBQ, slow roast venison, pulled pork burger

ASIAN FOOD PAIRING
Peking duck, Japanese seared steak and mushrooms

Bodegas Toro Albalá

Toro Albalá is a family winery with a centennial history, where the pass of years and the know-how had the last said. Time, silence, vintage wines that express each harvest’s essence like unique artisanal gems. Today, Antonio Sánchez is the head

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Bodegas Toro Albalá Marques de Poley Oloroso

Grape variety and region: 100% Pedro Ximénez. Bodegas Toro Albalá creates wines with 30% of grapes from their own vineyards and 70% coming from partner growers in Montilla-Moriles.

Taste profile: Marques de Poley Oloroso is dry and nutty with a noticeable salinity on the long finish. The nose opens with walnuts and almonds dipped in caramel before evolving to notes of raisins and dark chocolate. The intense and persistent palate tastes like Christmas fruit cake, closing in a dry and cinnamon spicy finish.

Winemaking process: The fruit is made into Oloroso sherry and ages over 10 years in a solera system, a method that adds fresh wine to old wine and builds complexity in flavour and aroma.

Dry & Yeasty Whites

Open tank fermentation, lees stirring, pumping over and racking can all play a role during vinification, while oxidative aging in allows gradual air contact with the wine. Oak barrels & concrete tanks are most often used for such styles, and the more intense styles are often made under flor

Expect notes of yeasty umami notes, as well as almon, dried apricot, and salinity

Fortification

Fortified wines are wines which have alcohol added to them, usually in the form of a neutral grape spirit like brandy. This was originally done to extend the longevity of wines, for the purpose of long journeys such as a the sailing routes of the East India Company

These styles are often sweeter as the fortification arrests fermentation early.