Tio Pepe Fino, En Rama, Gonzalez Byass, Bottled 2014

Tio Pepe Fino, En Rama, Gonzalez Byass, Bottled 2014

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Tio Pepe Fino, En Rama, Gonzalez Byass, Bottled 2014

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The 2014 En Rama bottling is the fifth outing from Uncle Pepe and looks set to be the best yet. Winemaker Antonio Flores has blended wines from two distinctive Soleras, one, Rebollo,  located in a dark humid Bodega and lending power and authority to the wine, the other, known as Constancia, adding high notes of lemon-peel and a crisp yeastiness.

Bottled unfined and unfiltered in the third week of April, when the yeast (aka flor) was at its thickest, the En Rama experience brings us as close as possible to tasting the wine directly from the cask  and is, as a result, gloriously complex and fantastically refreshing. Aromas of bread yeast and almonds transport us to a fiesta of Andalusian sunshine. On the palate the hints of iodine and peat underline complexity and the long, wonderfully crisp finish confirms quality. Best drunk within three months, this is an almost perfect Spring-time aperitif and will also be well-matched, needless to say, with tapas and mariscos. 
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Gonzalez Byass

Gonzalez Byass

Gonzales-Byass was established in Jerez in 1835 by a young entrepreneur Manuel Maria Gonzalez, who exported the first cask of Tio Pepe to London in 1844. Gonzalez was advised by an uncle of his, a man called Jose Angel de la Pena. Uncle Jose had a small bodega with his own solera of Fino, which had direct access to the street as he liked to come and go as he fancied. People called Jose are often nicknamed Pepe in Spain, so the solera of uncle Jose (tio means uncle), or uncle Pepe gave name to the famous Tio Pepe brand.

The original bodega del Tio Pepe still exists, is in use today, and in fact holds some of the best botas of Tio Pepe Fino. Gonzalez took different partners, and the company changed names a number of times, like Manuel Maria Gonzalez & Cia or Gonzalez & Dubosc. In 1855, the year the people of Bordeaux were really busy making the classification of their chateaux, Gonzalez sold some company shares to his importers and distributors in the UK, Robert Blake Byass. The name of the company was definitely set to Gonzalez Byass & Co., which has been kept till the present day. Today the fifth generation of the Gonzalez family still own and manage the company. 

The company has grown its holdings significantly over the years, and the winery's 37 hectares span across a number of small streets in Jerez  that connected the different bodegas, La Constancia, La Concha (a unique round bodega attributed to Gustav Eiffel), Los Apostoles, La Cuadrada, and the more recent Gran Bodega Tio Pepe, Las Copas or Marques de Bonanza.

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Palomino Fino

Palomino Fino

Palomino, named after Fernan Yanez Palomonio, one of King Alfonso X`s knights, is the primary grape variety for Sherry styles (Fino, Manzanilla, Amontillado, Oloroso, Palo Cortado) production.

It is a high yielding variety that is widely planted in Spain producing mostly insipid thin, dull wines lacking in fruit and acidity. However it thrives on the predominantly chalk based soils of Cadiz  where it produces large bunches of golden yellow grapes, which ripen in early September. The resulting must is transparent in colour and somewhat neutral in flavour, but the subsequent wine can develop a coating of flor before maturing in the solera system and produce a whole range of intense and aromatic sherries.

It is also grown in South Africa, California, and Australia where it is fortified to make sherry-style wines.

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