Saca of December 2013
DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry
22% alc. – 375ml
Bodega: Gaspar Florido / Pedro Romero
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Gaspar Florido kept in his cellars an amazingly older wine than his very old GF-25 and than its even more extremely old GF-30 (from the casks of the latter we have sourced two editions of La Bota de Palo Cortado, namely those numbered as 41 and 48). A true gem of a wine, an extraordinarily essential beverage that was marketed under the brand name “Ansar Real” almost with an eyedropper and at a very high price, nevertheless proportional to its rarity and to its outworldly quality. There still survive a couple casks of this wonderful wine in the hands of Bodegas Pedro Romero. One of them has a marked character of palo cortado, and this is the one which we have selected for the present edition, in the interest of its immediate comparison with his “younger” brother, bottled in parallel as La Bota de Palo Cortado 48 “Bota Punta”.
We cannot find proper adjectives to describe La Bota de Palo Cortado 47 “Bota NO”. Anyone who may have been impressed by the concentration and sharpness of the edition number 41, will now be incredibly amazed by the wild nature of this number 47. A powerful wine, perhaps excessive we admit, but it is precisely for this reason that it fascinates us so much. Any true wine lover should grab the opportunity to try a gem like this while we can still enjoy the increasingly improbable privilege of having access to them.