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José “Pepe” Blanco and his brother Francisco “Paco” Blanco started the Callejuela winery with their father and “dos botas viejas” in 1980 within the family home where their offices still remain. This intensely flavored Olorosso spends 25 years in the solera from barrels racked high in the cellar where the flor does not form.
Do you dream of the dried fruit and nut selection at Sahadi's or Kalustyan's? I know that I certainly do. If the dark, rich, intensely concentrated flavors of dried rhubarb, roasted cashews, mulberries, raisins, sour cherries, etc. all make you instantly salivate then I think you may have possibly be enthralled with Callejuela's El Cerro Oloroso.Twenty five years of oxidative aging beget exotic flavors that meld together with such intensity and strength that it is hard not be moved physically and emotionally by this incredible wine. A wine to pair with similarly complex cheeses, fragrant dishes with soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar, dried fruit and funk. Thai and Hunanese cusine would make a splendid partner at the table with this opulent sherry.
Central to the Spanish winemaking philosophy is the belief that wine should be released only when it is ready to be consumed, and not a moment before. Spanish wine law focuses squarely on this issue: the terms Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva are highly regulated indicators of the amount of time a wine has aged prior to its release. In Rioja, Navarra, and the Ribera del Duero (which have the...
Sherry actually gets its name from our anglo-inability to pronounce the word “Jerez,” the town at the southern end of Spain in which the wine is produced. Like Champagne, Sherry can only be called Sherry if it comes from this specific region. That said, there are other “Sherry-styled” wines worthy of note produced outside of the Sherry D.O. (known as vinos generosos). Montilla, lying to the...
This style of Sherry is dark, rich, full-bodied and complex. Oloroso Sherries mature in cask for up to 25 years with no flor whatsoever, and are thus directly exposed to oxygen over a long period of time. This oxidation gives Oloroso its dark color and powerful aroma, and makes it the perfect accompaniment to hearty stews or meat dishes (if not on its own as a digestif). Olorosos are generally...
Accounting for over 90% of the vine plantings in Jerez, this relatively neutral grape provides the ideal “blank canvas” for the creation of fabulously complex Sherries (much like the Ugni Blanc grape does in Cognac).
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