La Bota 30 de Manzanilla Pasada “Capataz Rivas”

Saca of June 2011 D.O. Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 15,6% alc. Limited edition of 3,600 (75cl) bottles Bodega: La Guita. Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Rafael Rivas, capataz for several decades at La Guita cellars at Sanlúcar’s Calle Misericordia until his recent retirement, started in 1986 this 15-butt solera with a well-aged…

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La Bota 29 de Brandy “Envejecido en botas de fino”

Saca of June 2011 D.O. Brandy de Jerez 41,7% alc. Limited edition of 750 (50cl) bottles Bodega: Rey Fernando de Castilla. Jerez de la Frontera Equipo Navazos are proud (as well as incredibly fortunate) to collaborate with a most impressive selection of top-notch producers whose ruling principles are quality and…

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La Bota 28 de Oloroso “Bota Punta”

Saca of March 2011 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 21% alc. Limited edition of 900 (37,5cl) bottles Bodega: Rey Fernando de Castilla, Jerez de la Frontera Led by Jan Pettersen, Fernando de Castilla is a Sherry house that illustrates like few others the rebirth of traditional Andalusian wines in the final years of…

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La Bota 27 de Fino “Macharnudo Alto”

Saca of March 2011 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 15% alc. Limited edition of 5,000 (75cl) bottles Bodega: Valdespino, Jerez de la Frontera La Bota de Fino (27) “Macharnudo Alto” is a new release from the soleras that already gave us previous editions numbered 2, 7, 15, and 18. This time we were…

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La Bota 26 de Amontillado “Cinco años después…”

Saca of December 2010 D.O. Montilla-Moriles 22% alc. Very limited release: 200 units (50 cl.) bottled, of which less than 100 have been distributed Bodega: Pérez Barquero, Montilla It is now the fifth birthday of our adventure at Equipo Navazos. It all started one fine late autumn morning in 2005 in Sanlúcar,…

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La Bota 25 de Pedro Ximénez “Bota NO”

Saca of September, 2010 D.O. Montilla-Moriles 15% alc. Limited release: 1,500 bottles (50 cl.) Bodega: Gracia, Montilla In the Bodega Principal of Gracia Hermanos, next to the railway station in Montilla, there is a small solera of very old PX made of only seven butts that have spent many years…

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La Bota 24 de Fino Amontillado “Montilla”

Saca of September, 2010 D.O. Montilla-Moriles 15,6% alc. Limited release: 2,600 bottles (75 cl.) Bodega: Pérez Barquero, Montilla A Fino on its way toward becoming an Amontillado, a wine traditionally labeled by winemakers and connoisseurs as Fino Amontillado—no matter how unfavorable the current legislation seems to be toward this ancient…

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La Bota 23 de Amontillado “Bota NO”

Saca of May 2010 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 21% alc. Limited release: 1,400 bottles (50 cl.)   This is a very old wine, from the same bodega in the ancient “de la Balsa” quarter in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in which La Bota de Amontillado no. 1 and no. 9 “Navazos”, and La…

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La Bota 22 de Manzanilla “Navazos”

Saca of May 2010 D.O. Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda 15% alc. Limited release: 4,500 bottles (75 cl.) Following the same procedure as for releases number 4, 8 and 16 in the series “La Bota de…”, this time we selected twenty two butts from the solera of the best-aged manzanilla in…

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La Bota 21 de Palo Cortado “Jerez”

Saca of February 2010 D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry 20,5% alc. Limited release: 1700 bottles (75 cl.) Bodega: Valdespino. Jerez de la Frontera The rich diversity of soleras of exceptional quality hosted in the different cellar facilities owned by Grupo Estévez on the outskirts of Jerez is truly impressive. This is largely due…

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