Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20231026 A delightfully complex refreshing alternative

A delightfully complex refreshing alternative to demi sec champagne

Region: Nicolás Bravo

The sweet botanicals give aromaticity and only a very small one is used part of sugar to exalt at best the salty and oxidized notes

with fine a silky tannins

Made of mostly high elevation Cabernet Franc

Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20231026 A delightfully complex refreshing alternativeIt smells like walnuts, toffee and old leather, and then it finishes bone dry. That contradiction is the whole point of oloroso, and Don Gonzalo is one of the great ones. Valdespino is among the oldest houses in Jerez, and this is their old guard oloroso: palomino, fortified, then aged in a solera with no flor covering it, so decades of slow contact with air do all the work. The VOS designation is a certification rather than marketing copy, meaning