Don PX 2012 75cl

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.