White wine, vintage 2020 (MMXX)
11% alc. – 750ml
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
3,200 bottles
f l o r p o w e r
MMXX: vintage 2020
Grape: 100% palomino fino
Vineyard: Pago Miraflores La Baja, Sanlúcar
10 months under flor
8 months in sherry casks
2 months in vat
At EQUIPO NAVAZOS we are determined to extract the full potential of biological ageing under flor at natural (unfortified) alcohol content. It was following that path that the white Navazos-Niepoort was produced for the first time in 2008 (there are quite a few vintages out in the market by now). Then we started a number of experiments ageing in butt and vats, using both palomino fino and pedro ximénez sourced from different terroirs in the Sherry district and Montilla – and even other non-commercial projects in Spain’s northeast and northwest. Experience has shown us that, in the end, the terroir of the vineyard always prevails regardless of the intensity and duration of aging, which is why we increasingly tend to limit the latter.
Along this line, in 2021 we bottled the eighth vintage of Florpower that has got to the market (MMXX, i.e., 2020), as release number 107 of the LA BOTA series. La Bota de Florpower 107 MMXX, an unfortified white wine, basically follows vintages 2010 and 2012 (releases 44, 53 and 57) in origin and winemaking practices, and even more the 2014 vintage (La Bota de Florpower MMXIV 67 “Más acá”), which started a line followed by vintages 2015 (release 77), 2016 (release 84) and 2018 (release 97). Then we bottled 2019 (edition 99) -exceptional in several ways, among them because it did not have any flor at all- and with this 2020 (edition 107) we take another step towards what we believe is the point of balance and freshness for a perfect expression of the vineyard through the biological aging process, even shorter than in previous vintages. Only a couple of months of rest and tenuous aging under flor in steel tanks after the common initial period of intense biological aging in the traditional 600-liter Jerez casks.
Made exclusively of Palomino Fino sourced from vines aged 55 and 85 years old in the blessed plot known as Pago Miraflores La Baja, it fermented old style, in the same casks where it later aged under flor for 8 months. In May 2021 it all went to a stainless steel vat where—always under the by now much milder influence of flor yeasts—it remained until bottling in July 2021.