Lustau San Emilio Pedro Ximenez 375ml Unique delicious

$31.00

One of the benchmark Sherries. San Emilio should be in every wine lovers collection.

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The San Emilio Pedro Ximenez is a luscious, rich fruit cake in a glass. Raisins, plums, chocolate, citrus peel. This classic Pedro Ximenez has it all. Pedro Ximenez is quite sweet but perfect with Christmas pudding, poured over vanilla ice cream or just drunk because it is yum.

Importantly, due to the production methods used, you can leave a bottle of Pedro Ximenez open for 12 months before start seeing any deterioration.

[box]Lustau San Emilio Pedro Ximenez and all wine are eligible for at least 5% off any six bottles. And 10% off any 12 bottles. Some wines will be at a more significant discount and not subject to further discounts.[/box]

Emilio Lustau has been one of the forerunners in quality, Sherry. Known for sourcing extraordinary Sherry from private Soleras, these ‘Almacentista’ bottlings are now iconic. The secret to the success of all the Lustau wines is the age, density and balance of their wines.

Lustau San Emilio Pedro Ximenez Winery Notes

Pedro Ximenez grapes are laid out in the sun after picking until they are practically raisins. After that the fermentation starts slowly and its halted to maintain all the natural sugars. The resulting wine ages in for 12 years in contact with the air in Jerez de la Frontera.

Ebony in colour with iodine highlights. The aromas are reminiscent of figs, raisins and dates. Enormously sweet, velvety and soft on the palate, well balanced, with a very long finish.

ALCOHOL: 17% Vol.
AVERAGE AGE: 12 years
PROFILE: Very sweet

Sherry/Jerez DO

Jerez in southwestern Spain is where Sherry comes from. Sherry is a fantastic product. Unique because of local conditions, the ‘Solera’ system, and Flor yeast. It is impossible to replicate these wines. Sherry can be anything from young to quite old and dry as dry can be to luscious and sweet. Palomino is the grape for dry Sherry. Sweeter wines use Pedro Ximenez (PX) and Muscat of Alexandria (Moscatel).

Pedro Ximenez

The grape variety and style of wine from Jerez in Spain, also known as Sherry. Best described as liquefied Christmas cake, it tastes of raisins and dehydrated fruits, chocolate, caramel with many more nuanced flavours. The region of Montilla grows almost all Pedro Ximenez grapes used to make Sherry. Sherry style Amontillado means “in the style of Montilla”. In the region of Montilla, they use Pedro Ximenez almost exclusively with their Sherry styled wines (can’t be called Sherry though!). For the Sherry PX, the super-ripe grapes are sundried before a brief fermentation, and then fortification leaving a lot of residual sugar. After that, a long and oxidative aging process. The best PX are 20 or 30 years old.

Solera

The Solera system used is Sherry is a way of fractional blending. There are many stages in the solera. Wine is bottled from the oldest barrels (no more than one third is taken each bottling). Then those barrels are topped up with the next oldest barrels. This can go through many levels of age. Therefore some of the oldest barrels have wine that is at least 30 years old but may be much older.

Solera

This differs drastically from Champagne or Port blending. In Champagne or Port, they blend separate wines to achieve the desired flavour. In the solera, the fractional blending takes place constantly, and the final product is the results of many years.

Spanish Wine

To answer your first question: “What is Spanish wine like?” I would say nothing on earth. Sort of… They use a lot of Tempranillo, which is a bit Shiraz-y, some Grenache (they say Garnacha). After that their native grape varieties are fairly out of the box and are just their own beast. Some of the regions can make wine that resembles Australian wines. If they ever discover the joys of irrigation, they could put a lot of our vintners out of business. Then you get into the unique wines of Spain. Sherry. Real, Sherry from Jerez is amazing. Albarino from Rias Baixas, Mencia from Bierzo, Rioja reds that can live for 60 years and still look young. Oh, and forget Prosecco, Cava is where you should invest your money for value Sparkling Wine.

In Spain, the wines are super cheap. For the amount of work put into production, and the flavours they achieve, most people would happily pay more for Spanish wine than what they charge.

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Fortified Wine

Fortified wine is grape juice (ferment fully, partially, or note at all) that has had a spirit added to it. The spirit can be a high strength neutral spirit. Or it can be almost Cognac-like. The fortification process is a highly effective way to preserve wine. And it was a process the English adopted to get all of these lovely international wines back to England.

Often fortified wines are aged for an incredible amount of time in the barrel, making them complex, and charming. There is a fortified wine for every occasion, and I have hosted dinners in which we served only fortified wine.

Fortified wine can be dry or sweet or anywhere in between. They can use red grapes or white grapes. And often end up brown due to the aging process. The alcoholic strength can run from 15%, like a strong table wine, all the way to over 20%. Best to read the label before going back for the second glass.

The most famous fortified wine is Port. Almost as well known is Sherry, Madeira, Muscat and Topaque (formerly Tokay) from Australia. There are countless other unique and quirky styles.

Wine

Wine is the result you get from fermented grape juice. There is proof of wine production dating back 8000 years ago. Fashions, innovations and many other factors have influenced the way wine has evolved over the years.

The wine grape is impressive. It contains everything you need to make grape wine except for the yeast, which lives on the outside of the skins.

Human inputs can influence the final product, including the viticulture (growing) choices. And the winemaker can shape the wine to a point too.

The best wines of the world often refer to terroir. Terroir is a French term that refers to all the climatic, geological and topographical influences on a specific piece of land. And it is true that neighbouring vineyards, grown identically, can taste noticeably different.

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Lustau San Emilio Pedro Ximenez
Lustau San Emilio Pedro Ximenez

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Weight 1.3 kg
Dimensions 7 × 7 × 30 cm
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