Bodegas Toro Albala Marques de Poley Palo Cortado En Rama 25 Anos

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Pedro Ximénez

$72.00

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Preserved Fruit, Citrus Fruit, Concentrated / Preserved Fruit, and Mineral, Toasted, Sweet Spice, Reductive & Oxidative Nuttiness, Woody, and Smokey

BODY: Medium +
DRYNESS: Neutral
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
Mushroom risotto, Smoked fatty fish, Meat stews

ASIAN FOOD PAIRING
Beef and mushroom ramen, Japanese fruit pastries, Banana sticky rice cakes

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 En Rama Palo Cortado

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 Palo Cortado has a suggestion of sweetness and a velvety texture. Amber colour with copper reflections. The noble and elegant nose is filled with aromas of sweet caramel, tobacco spice, roasted nuts and candied orange peel. Dry and voluminous entry to the intense palate, which seems to reminisce over its time spent in old wood barrels. Nice flavours of raisins, tobacco and warm woody notes mingle with orange peel and hazelnuts.

Winemaking process: The wine goes through a long and traditional ageing process in a "crianza" system, loses the veil of flor early on and starts the oxidative ageing. It stays in this peculiar ageing for around 25 years.

Food pairing: roasted lamb, spiced partridge, hare civet and wellroasted game. It can also be tasted with appetizers, foie, puff pastry and assorted hams.

Caramelized & Nutty Desserts

These wines are often aged oxidatively and show developed characteristics of rich caramel, cream and a range of nutty aromas. Sweetness levels can vary.

Many of these wines are made from dried grapes, and are often fortified or solera aged. Often viscous in texture, they classically have notes of almonds, coffee, and marmalade. Some styles may have a "cooked" tinge to it due to being aged in warm conditions

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.