WTN: A contender for the best wine of the year....

• Williams & Humbert Rare Old Dry Amontillado Solera Especial VORS 30yo Jalifa - Spain, Andalucía, Jerez-Xérès-Sherry (9/23/2009)
  
  c.26€; 19,5% abv. Brown/orange. A lovely scent of rancio and nuts, some citrus, nicely lifted and chalky, incredibly complex. Dry but rich and racy. Awesome! Does what it says on the tin.
  

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Funny how sometimes awesome wines invoke in me poetry more boring than Wordsworth (and he could be boring outside of the Lake District, too...); yet sometimes I actually get to the point. No correlation with, what is taken as fact, that the most awesome wines inspire the longest prose.

p.s. this 750 was drunk over 5 days - a generous glass per day. I did find deterioration on the last day, so I still disagree with those who say that Sherries last brilliantly once opened. I prefer the liveliness of the first 1-3 (maybe 4) days.

[Jenise]

And what did it say on the tin?

And what did it say on the tin?

I simply meant that to me it tasted just like Amontillado should.

[David M. Bueker]

Nice to see Sherry notes once in a while. While I like Sherry I never seem to buy or drink much of any except PX. Odd.

is if you pour a glass and it's "sherried," that's not a flaw.
Same with Madeira if it's Madeirized.

Charles