VINA CALLEJUELA MANZANILLA EN RAMA SHERRY 375ml

“The Blanco family philosophy has always been to carefully orchestrate a later harvest, beginning around the 2nd of September, while many of their neighbors start around the 14th or 15th of August. This enables them to pick grapes with higher brix, needing a lower degree of alcohol when fortifying with the grape spirts used to make Manzanillas and Sherries. Also, and maybe most importantly, they strive to maintain the purest Palomino grape expression as possible, and the longer the hang time on vine, the more influence of the albariza soil is transmitted. Here, their thirsty roots can often stretch down approximately 6-7 meters in search of the retained moistures captured below the dry, hot albariza crusted land. Early on, the Blancos began to barter a portion of their coveted mosto each harvest in exchange for used botas from their winery clients, rather than be compensated in their normal peseta per kilo rate. Like this, bota por bota, they slowly built the family’s various soleras –reaching nearly 750 botas in use today. In 1998 they created the brand Viña Callejuela, and in 2015 they expanded the brand by releasing their Blanquito Manzanilla Pasada, La Casilla Amontillado y El Cerro Oloroso, their extensively aged generoso wines, as well as single vineyard, single vintage, “vinos estáticos” Manzanillas. Today they hold a class of their own as a 100% estate bottled, grower Sherry. They also make single vineyard, single vintage, non-fortified Palomino wines that naturally form clouds of flor at 12%-13.5%, that they refer to as, ‘vinos tranquilos.’”