White wine, vintage 2022 (MMXXII)
11.5% alc. – 750ml
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
More tan 5,000 bottles
f l o r p o w e r
MMXXII: vintage 2022
Grape: 100% palomino fino
Old vines: Pago Miraflores La Baja, Sanlúcar
Fermented in cask
8 months under flor
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 2023 we bottled the tenth vintage of Florpower that has got to the market (MMXXII, i.e., 2022), as release number 119 of the LA BOTA series. La Bota de Florpower 119 MMXXII, an unfortified white wine, basically follows vintages 2010 and 2012 (releases 44, 53 and 57) in origin and winemaking practices, and even more the 2014-2021 vintages (releases 67-114). With this 2022 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 the pioneering vintages. In this vintage we have dispensed with tenuous aging under flor in steel tanks after intense biological aging in traditional 600-litre 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 in the same casks in which it later aged under flor for eight months until it was bottled at the end of May 2023.