NV Palo Cortado VORS 0,75l Bodegas Tradicion
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I found the first bottling of 2024, marked as Lot 1/24, of the NV Palo Cortado VORS to be extremely elegant and subtle. It's somewhere in between its Oloroso and Amontillado siblings in the VORS category, combining notes of iodine, rusty iron and seaweed with gentler aromas of dried apricots and spices. It's pungent and fine-boned, high-pitched, sharp and long. There were 2,200 bottles of this elixir.
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Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
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30 years old. Dry, tangy and nutty, Very light and fresh. Rather ethereal. Like a feather brushing against one’s cheek. Very clean finish. (JR)
The NV Palo Cortado VORS, from the 2,150 bottles filled in 2016 (marked as L1/16 on the label) now averages almost 40 years of age, as Tradición purchased the solera of Capuchino from Osborne, and the blend increased almost ten years from the previous time I tasted it in 2013. This is a textbook Palo Cortado with that creaminess that makes them unique, incredible elegance and intensity but at the same time terribly balanced and elegant. A world-class wine.
Pale browny gold. Rich in burnt toffee and caramelised apricot. Burnt and burnished and the intensity pulls you in with no escape. A well without a ladder. Bone dry and intense but not painful. Gloriously dry and burnished on the finish. (JH)