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Don PX 2012 75cl

DO | Andalusia | Spain
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2012 2015
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89 Robert Parker
A young, sweet, single-vintage Pedro Ximénez, the 2012 Don PX, was aged in stainless steel vats for two years and was bottled with 450 grams of residual sugar and 17% alcohol. This is extremely dense and sweet, exuberant with aromas of sugar cane, dates and golden raisins and an extremely sweet, dense palate with flavors of raisins and lowish acidity. I prefer these young wines in their initial, more exuberant phase but once they lose their youthful character they will keep in bottle forever given the high alcohol and sugar. Toro Albalá from Montilla-Moriles keeps releasing small lots of very old vintage-dated sweet Pedro Ximénez and this time I also tasted a couple of dry, old, vintage-dated Amontillados of mindboggling quality. Some of the wines reviewed here the last time are also released from new lots, with different lot numbers so the wines might vary slightly as each barrel is different. It looks like the current bottlings were all done at once. With such older wines the vintage date has to be taken with a pinch of salt, as there is little documentation about them and what happened during all these years.
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Toro Albalá
Antonio Sanchez Prieto founded Bodegas Toro Albalá in 1844, in the village of Aguilar de la Frontera. By 1922, José Ma Toro Albalá restored the former electric power station of Aguilar where he moved the winery, and still is today. The Montilla-Moriles region is famous for Sherry, to create this fantastic concoction, the grapes are sun-dried into raisins before being pressed and fermented. Due to the incredible concentration of the juice, the wines are notably sweet but also wonderfully fresh. Don P.X. is their renowned Sherry, full of rich and deep flavors of raisins, figs and dates - the perfect pairing could be anything from blue cheese, to vanilla ice-cream, undoubtedly a must try. In addition to their wonderful wines, the winery’s tasting room holds an extensive wine library with more than 100,000 books.