Hidalgo is one of the few remaining family-owned independent bodegas and it still only uses grapes from its own vineyards. Its Manzanilla La Gitana is the best-selling Manzanilla in Spain but the firm`s best wines are its Amontillados. Hildago's Amontillado Viejo is an amalgam of new leather, figs, hazelnuts and soft vanilla fruit and is one of the greatest sherries in the world.

Recently Javier Hidalgo joined forces with Port producer Cristiano Van Zeller to develop single-vineyard sherries from Hidalgo's Pastrana site.