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100% Godello • from various midslope plots with south and southwest exposition • slate soils • Hand-harvested...
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A delicately aromatic white wine displaying layered notes of lavender, citrus blossom, and kumquat with hints of...
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Clean pale yellow color. Nose fruity, persistent and elegant aromas. Good backbone on the palate.
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Pale yellow to the eye, this wine has honeydew melon, apricot and smoke aromas. Vivid peach and yellow-plum flavors...
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An intense and complex nose of ripe fruits, lime, fennel and mint. The apple, melon and peach fruit flavors carry on...
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The nose highlights its aromatic intensity and great personality with citrus, pink grapefruit, fennel, mint and a...
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The white 2021 Ultreia Godello shows freshness, restraint, balance and good freshness, with a very low pH of 3.19. It...
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• 100% Palomino.
• From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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100% Godello from 30 year old vines in red clay soils. Grapes are destemmed and left on the skins for 24 hours....
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Yellow straw with greenish highlights with pronounced aromas of pear and honeydew. Well structured and balanced on...
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Colour: Dull straw yellow with greenish highlights.
Bouquet: Fresh, with characteristic notes of hawthorn and fruit,...
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Clean and vibrant with a straw yellow color. The nose stands out for the intensity and complexity of its aromas but...
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Fukano Blonde—an all-new, limited expression from the famed distillery—is bottled to showcase the beauty of...
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Texturally robust and aromatically refined, Fukano’s Sherry Cask whisky feels and tastes downright luxurious....
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Each individual cask displays Fukano’s signature aromas of ripe fruit and toasted baking spice—think...
Erbaluce Godello Japanese Whiskey Sherry
Whisky might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Japanese fine produce, but over the past one hundred years, this fascinating and multi-faceted country has diligently forged a unique whisky identity which is growing in popularity, and which is entirely its own.
The story of Japanese whisky begins in 1918, when Masataka Taketsuru was sent to Scotland to undertake a tour of single malt distilleries in the Highlands, and bring home a knowledge of whisky and distillation skills. He returned full of inspiration, helped no doubt by his new Scottish wife, and alongside his friend, Shinjiro Torii, set up what would become a successful whisky industry.
Today, the Japanese whisky industry is spread over a relatively small handful of distilleries, which continue to use Scottish techniques and recipes, but with a hefty dose of distinctly Japanese experimentalism. This is displayed most obviously in the barrelling techniques the Japanese use - to create a distinctly Oriental set of tasting notes, native Japanese oakwood casks are used for ageing, alongside casks taken from plum wine producers, which impart a beautiful set of floral flavors to the whisky.
While some distilleries produce some excellent single malts, the majority of Japanese whiskies are blended, which reveals a unique set of flavors and aromas ranging from honeysuckle and orange blossom, to toffee and acetone.
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.