Palomino Fino
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Bodegas Lustau, Papirusa, Manzanilla, Solera Familiar, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
White
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15.0% Alcohol
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Bodegas Lustau, Puerto Fino, Solera Familiar, Jerez, Spain
White
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15.0% Alcohol
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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.