Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20230828 ) The village bottling pulls

) The village bottling pulls from parcels around Gevrey and ages in around 20 percent new oak

A benchmark Marlborough wine

Casa Noble Reposado Tequila is aged for 364 days in new French oak barrels

The gentian carries the bitterness

Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20230828 ) The village bottling pullsIt smells like walnuts, toffee and old leather, and then it finishes bone dry. That contradiction is the whole point of oloroso, and Don Gonzalo is one of the great ones. Valdespino is among the oldest houses in Jerez, and this is their old guard oloroso: palomino, fortified, then aged in a solera with no flor covering it, so decades of slow contact with air do all the work. The VOS designation is a certification rather than marketing copy, meaning