Emilio Lustau Palo Cortado Peninsula Sherry

Name: Emilio Lustau Palo Cortado Peninsula Sherry
Brand: Chambers & Chambers [CAC]
SKU: SF-GSW-080923-86
Price: 31.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$31⁹⁹

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Palo Cortado is the sherry that happens by accident: a barrel loses its flor early, or never grows a proper layer of it, and the capataz fortifies it to around 17% to stop the biological ageing and send it down an oxidative path instead. What comes out the other side is the style's whole appeal — the finesse and delicacy of an Amontillado with the richness and body of an Oloroso, which is why Lustau calls this an extremely versatile wine and why it's the bottle to reach for when you can't decide. Península spends a brief spell under flor and then close to a decade ageing oxidatively, averaging twelve years in the Bodega la Emperatriz Eugenia in Jerez de la Frontera, where the solera keeps folding younger wine into older. It's 100% Palomino, grown on the chalky white albariza soils that hold what little moisture Jerez gets. Bone dry, for the record — the richness here is all texture and nuttiness, not sugar. For the depth of flavour that twelve years in a solera buys you, few things in the wine world are as undervalued.

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Decanter

90 points

"Intense aromas of roasted walnuts and cooked apple. A concentrated, rich palate, with great freshness and a long fruit cakey finish."

Wine Enthusiast

90 points

"Dark amber in color, with maple, walnut and other sweet-meets-nutty aromas. It's a bit tangy, but being as zesty as it is propels maple, white chocolate and apricot flavors. This one has depth and a very long finish, which makes it a regal but still approachable palo cortado. Overall it's similar to an amontillado, but with more pulsing, piercing acidity."