About this WINE
Bodegas Emilio Lustau
Emilio Lustau was established in 1896 and was initially a small family concern until the founder`s son-in-law placed it on a business footing.
The firm is perhaps best known as pioneering the Almacenista system, whereby individual dry sherries are produced from small private holdings. These are bottled under Lustau`s name but with the individual bodega's name on the label as well. Today they are amongst the most sought-out Sherries in the region.
The firm also produces superb wines from its recently acquired 170 hectare Montenegrillo vineyard.
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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Description
Dark amber in colour, with tobacco and leather aromas in the nose, this rare style of Sherry wine, Palo Cortado, is intense, reminiscent of roasting coffee beans, spices and dark chocolate. Dry and very concentrated, this a wine gem of long and elegant finish.
Since 1981 Lustau has selected small quantities of the finest quality sherries which have been matured by small independent producers, better known as “almacenistas”. The almacenistas are often professionals and business people in other spheres of life who, because of their passion for sherry, decide to age sherries or Manzanillas in their small bodegas – mostly family owned.
They sell their wines to friends or to the Sherry exporters who then add these wines to their own soleras, to improve the quality. In the past these wines were not available to the broad market, until Lustau offered their selection to discerning wine drinkers.
Manuel Lozano, the Lustau wine maker or “capataz”, makes the selection and Lustau bottles them, untreated, exactly as drawn from their soleras barrels. On each label of almacenista sherries the name of the producer, the style of the wine, the town where it has been matured and the number of barrels that make up the solera are all indicated to pay homage to these artisan winemakers.
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