Description
To celebrate 125 years of history, Bodegas Lustau is launching an unprecedented and one-of-a-kind 125th Anniversary Collection in homage to the legacy and expertise of their ancestors in making sherry. A unique selection of three bottles of wines that have never before seen the light of day, having spent years ageing in the cool silence of three of Lustau’s cellars in Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María and Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
The collection contains the following three rare and remarkable wines:
Manzanilla Pasada Papirusa. Sanlucar de Barrameda
8 years old on average
Manzanilla Papirusa’s older brother. Four large butts (bocoys) were set aside for four years so that the veil of flor – the layer of yeast that forms on the top of the wine – continued to consume wine nutrients until almost dying out completely, through the greater surface area in contact with the wine and the static ageing process. This allowed it to oxidise slightly. A mature, evocative and irresistible Manzanilla.
ABV: 16%
VOL: 500ML
Amontillado Solera del Castillo. El Puerto de Santa Maria
30 years old on average
Extracted from the silence of the winery in the imposing Castillo de San Marcos, a 13th century fortress, constructed under the orders of King Alfonso X the Wise. Selected from a selection of 20 butts in an inverted solera, where the wines first undergo biological ageing for four years, followed by oxidative ageing over more than 25 years, 17 of which it lies untouched by man. This has a marked effect on the personality of this wine, making it intense, powerful, extremely complex and full of nuanced flavours.
ABV: 21.5%
VOL: 500ML
Vintage Sherry Añada 1996. Jerez de la Frontera
25 years of aging
A sweet wine made exclusively by Lustau that is completely different and unique among all sherry wines. Resulting from the 1996 vintage in which the Palomino grapes were allowed to mature on the vine for longer than usual (late harvest.) It was then kept for over 25 years in centuries old sealed butts that had previously contained oloroso wines. No other wines like this have ever been seen before.
ABV: 21%
VOL: 500ML
