Delgado Zuleta - 'Quo Vadis' 30 YO VORS Amontillado 500ml

Delgado Zuleta - 'Quo Vadis' 30 YO VORS Amontillado 500ml

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"Quo Vadis? is a wine that originated at Benito Rodríguez – Lacave, a now defunct bodega that was merged in 1978 with Delgado Zuleta, one of the oldest bodegas in the sherry region. It has taken over most of the Lacave wines (other examples include the Manzanilla Barbiana).

Although Delgado Zuleta produces most of its wines in modern premises just outside of Sanlúcar, on the road to Chipiona, they also maintain a few really old bodegas in the town centre. In one of these bodegas of the Barrio Alto matures the Amontillado Quo Vadis?.

This wine is one of the strangest experiments that have come out of the sherry triangle. It originated as an uncommon sobretabla: the grapes were sourced entirely from young vines in the pago Miraflores, and it was fermented in new oak casks, highly uncommon for the region (as flor doesn’t grow when there are too many oak tannins). Rodríguez – Lacave couldn’t find a buyer for this peculiar wine but he was too proud to sell them below the market price, so he decided to lock them up in the cellar of his house. After many years the wine contains much oak tannin but also displayed a surprising elegance and a clear influence of biological ageing (even without the periodic refreshing).

 

Quo Vadis? used to be sold as an Amontillado Viejo without age statement, bottled at 18,5% with traditional labels that prominently mentioned the name of Rodriguez – Lacave. Recently Delgado Zuleta modernized the label (in line with its La Goya XL), moved to a 50cl bottle and decided to register its wine for a VORS age statement. Carbon 14 dating shows the wine is close to 50 years of age."

 

--------THE PRODUCER--------

Delgado Zuleta

Delgado Zuleta is the oldest, still active, producer of Sherry. Most Sherry is produced in Jerez but there is a smaller town of Sanlucar de Barrameda, which is more coastal, still permitted to produce Sherry wines, this is where Delgado Zuleta is set up. They have been producing top quality Sherry wines since 1744. The forefront of Delgado Zuleta's portfolio is of the Manzanilla Sherries.

 

 

--------THE GRAPE--------

Palomino

Palomino is famous for its usage in the fortified wines of Sherry where it is the base for everything from Fino to Oloroso sherries. As a white wine it is often bland but great examples of Palomino are zesty with fresh lime and green apple flavours.


 

--------THE REGION--------

Sanlucar de Barrameda

This is an important part of the small region in the southwest of Spain that makes the legendary fortified wines of Sherry. There are actually three towns that make up the Sherry region.  Jerez the most famous and important town with Sanlucar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa Maria the other two.  Manzanilla is a DO in Sanlucar de Barrameda and that wine is known as Fino in Jerez.