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Equipo Navazos Sherry
No 33 La Bota de Dulce (37.5cl)

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Rey Fernando de Castilla y Almacenista Juan Garc�a Jarana
Jerez de la Frontera
Production: 1,100 bottles

The best �color� wine was obtained in the past from the slow fermentation of a blend of musts of Palomino Fino and arrope (the same must once reduced to one fifth its original volume after being heated in large cauldrons over fire). Manuel M�. Gonz�lez Gordon tells in his Sherry �Bible� that these wines were not appreciated only for their capacity to add color to blends but also for the quality of their aromas if they were allowed to develop with age in butts and other vessels. That is why some bodegas gave these wines a twofold function: besides using them immediately after production to add color to their regular bottlings, these houses also cherished their stocks of truly old color wines�often blended with old oloroso wines�in order to be able to touch their best and most venerable releases with it immediately before bottling (honestly, this is a Sherry tradition that we are reluctant to part with). Such is the origin of La Bota de Dulce n� 33 Color "Bota NO", a truly rare wine.

The use of color wines fell from grace in the second half of the twentieth century, with the arrival of technological innovations that allowed easier and cheaper methods for adding color to wines (again a practice that we of course reject), and virtually disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s. The profound color wines of majestic age disappeared with it. Some producers, however, have preserved specific butts as relics from the past. Among them we can find Almacenista Juan Garc�a Jarana, who stores a small group of three veritably old butts of color wine in one of his two cellars in the Barrio de Santiago in Jerez. We have selected the cask that we consider has the best balance within its brutal concentration.

This is a very old wine best intended to provide aromatic pleasure while we barely sip it�wet our lips in it, really. All parameters hit high here: high concentration, dry extract, and acidity. Sugar contents are around 190 grams per liter, which makes it officially a "dulce"�since color wines have currently disappeared from any official classification of Sherry wines.

For those who are fortunate enough to have ever enjoyed the extremely old "Para" wines of 100 years of age from the outstanding Australian producer Seppeltsfield�wines of concentrated tannin and brutal character�this Bota 33 may ring a bell. More recent references may be our La Bota de Amontillado n� 5 NPI, and Moscatel Viej�simo Toneles by Valdespino. La Bota de Dulce n� 33 is similar in terms of average age (70-80 years old?) and concentration, and halfway between them in sugar content, though likely of less refined character.

Just a few hundred halves have been bottled of this extraordinary wine, extremely old and equally special. We are perfectly aware that even many real experts will consider it undrinkable. But, frankly, we love it�

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