Amontillado Napoleon Vinos Viejos de Hidalgo 30 Year Old 50cl

Amontillado Napoleón Vinos Viejos de Hidalgo 30 Year Old VORS, Spain, 50cl

Grape: 100% Palomino Fino, 3g/L residual sugar

Aroma: Intensely rich hazelnut, beeswax. Taste: dry, very nutty, full bodied.

Critics' Tasting Notes: 

"Notes of walnut and spice, with a sweet and sour nature. Lively and very refreshing in the mouth. Poised, succulent, very complex and elegant" Claire Hu,  Wine and Spirit. November 2008

"Exquisite and complex with enticing balsamic, apple peel and warm walnut notes; incredibly fresh and clean with a creamy, macadamia texture and a lifted long finish."

96/100 points (Gold), Decanter World Wine Awards, 2019

"Mid amber. Intense, mellow, old tobacco, hazelnut toast, mahogany and hard cheese, with wood spice. Dry and focused palate of orange and cooked citrus, with hard cheese rancio, spice and toasted hazelnut. Far from dried out – lots of life here. Very long. Fine."Drink 2019-2035

18.5/20 points, Tim Jackson MW,JancisRobinson.com, May 2019

Produced according to the traditional methods. The ageing method used for all sherries is known as the solera system which consists of a continuous blending of young sherries with older ones resulting in a sherry of consistent quality. Matured in solera, in casks of American oak in the sherry town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda. The maturation is first ‘biological’, i.e. under a veil of yeast or flor followed by the ‘oxidative’ process, which begins as the yeast dies off due to lack of nutrients available in the Sherry. Then follows several (over thirty years) of ageing in cask, to give a dry, complex wine. Wines of such age are designated VORS, (Very Old Rare Sherry).

How To Serve: A pungent aperitif, but also great with many foods: Tapas, soup, dry cheeses and even beef.