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Equipo Navazos La Bota 86 Palo Cortado (375ml)

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Equipo Navazos La Bota 86 Palo Cortado (375ml)
Producer Equipo Navazos
Region, Country Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Bottle Size 375ml
Product Code 18038-375

Saca de October 2018. Bottled from a single cask like Bota 85, the 86 was sourced from Pérez Barquero’s Bodega Los Amigos in Montilla. This is another remarkable and unique expression. The wine started out as an Oloroso but came to be classed as Palo Cortado due to its uncommon finesse. Barquín credits the source vineyard—the high-altitude Altos de Moriles, home to Montilla’s finest albarizas—and the precision for tempering the opulence of old vine Montilla PX.

We have come to associate La Bota’s half-bottle format with extremely old, concentrated wines (No. 73 and 78, for instance) and this bottling chimes in at only 30 years old. It is bottled in halves due to the wine’s scarcity—we received only 24 half bottles—and its sheer quality. It is really a staggering wine. Despite the remarkable finesse and even delicacy, you only need a small glass to be satisfied, such is the intensity. A wine for contemplation. A wine for being blown away.

Equipo Navazos La Bota 86 Palo Cortado (375ml)

Reviews

“The extremely old wines are bottled in half bottles, but the NV La Bota de Palo Cortado 86 Bota NO taken from a single cask is not that old; it's around 30 years of age and from Montilla-Moriles, not from Jerez, and therefore produced with Pedro Ximénez grapes (selected because of the variety's purity and finesse) instead of Palomino. It was produced by Pérez Barquero, one of the finest producers in Montilla-Moriles—as the finesse of this wine confirms. This is now 19% alcohol, allegedly from sheer concentration through evaporation. But this is not as concentrated and pungent as the extremely old wines; this feels lighter and more delicate, with the finesse and verticality (even if it was never aged under flor) that is expected from the biological wines. It started its life as an Oloroso, but given that fine character, it was deemed a Palo Cortado. And even within the Palo Cortado, this is extremely elegant. This is a true Palo Cortado, a fine oxidative wine. 1,100 bottles were filled
95 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate
“On the palate, the concentration is immense but there’s none of the bitterness that you sometimes get on very intense and mature sherry. There’s something a little roasted here but not coffee, smoky perhaps. Even with all this concentration, it finishes wonderfully fresh and goes on for ever so that it is almost a chewy food. As it opens, I find something like dried flowers and lavender. Incredibly complex.”
19 points, 19 points, Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com

Reviews

“The extremely old wines are bottled in half bottles, but the NV La Bota de Palo Cortado 86 Bota NO taken from a single cask is not that old; it's around 30 years of age and from Montilla-Moriles, not from Jerez, and therefore produced with Pedro Ximénez grapes (selected because of the variety's purity and finesse) instead of Palomino. It was produced by Pérez Barquero, one of the finest producers in Montilla-Moriles—as the finesse of this wine confirms. This is now 19% alcohol, allegedly from sheer concentration through evaporation. But this is not as concentrated and pungent as the extremely old wines; this feels lighter and more delicate, with the finesse and verticality (even if it was never aged under flor) that is expected from the biological wines. It started its life as an Oloroso, but given that fine character, it was deemed a Palo Cortado. And even within the Palo Cortado, this is extremely elegant. This is a true Palo Cortado, a fine oxidative wine. 1,100 bottles were filled
95 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate
“On the palate, the concentration is immense but there’s none of the bitterness that you sometimes get on very intense and mature sherry. There’s something a little roasted here but not coffee, smoky perhaps. Even with all this concentration, it finishes wonderfully fresh and goes on for ever so that it is almost a chewy food. As it opens, I find something like dried flowers and lavender. Incredibly complex.”
19 points, 19 points, Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com

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