XIMENEZ-SPINOLA Pedro Ximenez Vintage Sherry 'Anada' 2023 HALF/nc

Description

Bright gold colour with old gold reflections, some depth and legs. Lovely, rich and full, hint oily and sweet - very over-ripe grapes, some light texture and traces of Fino Sherry, apricot jam and perfume, amazingly fresh. Low acid but retains a certain tang, not over sweet (somewhere around 50grams/litre) but certainly sweet, traces of nut oil, apricot, grapes and yeast from the batonnage. Quite a luscious texture, like a German Auslese, but lower acid and made from PX. Lovely, long, unusual, moreish...

The grapes were picked 21 days after normal table wine ripeness and fermented without solero (sun-drying) on their skins. The wine was aged for 4 months on its lees in American oak butts undergoing light batonnage (lees stirring), and lightly filtered into bottle.