Gutierrez Colosia, Oloroso Solera Familiar

Gutierrez Colosia, Oloroso Solera FamiliarThe Solera Familiars are Gutierrez Colosias version of a VORS. It comes from the oldest soleras at the bodega and is bottled in extremely small quantities each year. Colosias Solera Familiar Oloroso averages a minimum of 35 years of age. The Solera Familiar sherries represent the very oldest, and most limited, sherries produced by Gutierrez Colosia. Only a few hundred bottles are bottled yearly to maintain the integrity of these soleras, which have

Vougeraie is very happy with the 2016 result

The spring also saw several rainy spells

With a wide and outstanding bouquet

and roasted aromas

This slightly precocious beginning of the vineyard’s cycle of growth gradually came back into balance during the month of July

Finishing in the bottle for 4 months before release

raspberries

giving way to fragrant underlying scents of roses and violets with a core of crushed black currants

and a few more from later in the sequence

All of the Palmas series

Wine-making process: Estate-grown bunches

which have been left to age in amontillado barrels for a specific ageing process