La Bota 40 de Manzanilla Pasada “Bota Punta”

Saca of September, 2012 DO Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 16.2% alc. – 50cl Hijos de Rainera Pérez Marín Sanlúcar de Barrameda Production: 1,000 bottles When La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 30 “Capataz Rivas” was bottled, two of the 1/15 solera butts were showing such magnificent character that we decided to…

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La Bota 39 de Manzanilla Pasada “Bota NO”

Saca of September, 2012 DO Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 15.9% alc. – 50cl Hijos de Rainera Pérez Marín Sanlúcar de Barrameda Production: 1,000 bottles When La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 30 “Capataz Rivas” was bottled, two of the 1/15 solera butts were showing such magnificent character that we decided to…

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La Bota 38 de Viejo Cream “Bota NO”

Saca of August, 2012 DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 21% alc. – 375ml Valdespino Jerez de la Frontera Production: 900 bottles La Bota de Viejo Cream 38 “Bota NO” is a new release of edition 19 in the series: a sweet oloroso that has aged as such in a 9-butt solera under the…

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La Bota 37 de Amontillado “Navazos”

Saca of August, 2012 DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 18.5% alc. – 75cl Hijos de Rainera Pérez Marín Sanlúcar de Barrameda Production: 3,000 bottles Since the 1980s and until very recently, the amontillado soleras of Rainera P. Marín were made of very different soleras labeled within the cellar as “Manzanilla Pasada”: from the…

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La Bota 36 de Pedro Ximénez “Bota NO”

Saca of June, 2012 D.O. Jerez – Xérès – Sherry 15% alc. – 50cl Rey Fernando de Castilla Jerez de la Frontera Production: 2,400 bottles The oldest solera of sweet pedro ximénez at Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla consists of around thirty casks that boast a clear jerezano style, markedly…

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La Bota 35 de Fino “Macharnudo Alto”

Saca of June, 2012 D.O. Jerez – Xérès – Sherry 15% alc. – 75cl Valdespino Jerez de la Frontera Production: over 5,000 bottles La Bota de Fino 35 “Macharnudo Alto” is a saca made in June 2012 from the same batch of casks that already gave us the five previous…

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La Bota 34 de Palo Cortado “Pata de Gallina”

Saca of February, 2012 DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 20% alc. – 75cl Rey Fernando de Castilla y Almacenista Juan García Jarana Jerez de la Frontera Production: 3,000 bottles A powerful if extremely elegant Palo Cortado, cousin—so to speak—to our release number 21 but with a different character, since it is sourced from…

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La Bota 33 de Dulce “Color Bota NO”

Saca of February, 2012 DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 15% alc. – 375ml Rey Fernando de Castilla y Almacenista Juan García Jarana Jerez de la Frontera Production: 1,100 bottles The best “color” wine was obtained in the past from the slow fermentation of a blend of musts of Palomino Fino and arrope (the…

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La Bota 32 de Manzanilla “Navazos”

Saca of October 2011 D.O. Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 15% alc. – 75cl Bodega: Miguel Sánchez Ayala. Sanlúcar de Barrameda Following the procedure used for previous releases of the “La Bota de…” series, this time we selected 20 butts of the best-aged manzanilla solera at Sánchez Ayala. This Sanlúcar producer…

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La Bota 31 de Amontillado “Bota NO”

Saca of October 2011 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 20% alc. – 50cl Bodega: La Guita. Sanlúcar de Barrameda In the wine cellars owned by La Guita on the road to Jerez outside Sanlúcar de Barrameda there are several Amontillado soleras identified by the number of butts that exist of each one, and…

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