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Manuel Aragón Palo Cortado Viejo

Palo Cortado Viejo is produced from estate-grown, organic palomino grapes grown in Pago Marquesado in chalky albariza barajuela soils. It is a very rare limited release from the Aragón foundational solera. This authentic treasure is hand-bottled once a year directly from cask in tiny quantities. A unique, very old sherry from a single 350 liter cask, this Palo Cortado is relatively gentle for its age (believed to be between 50- and 60-years-old) and 20% alcohol. It is nuanced, intense, and complex; mixing the classical aromas of nuts, orange peel, coffee and varnished woods, with a palate softened by a roundness that makes it profoundly elegant. This rare wine has an unforgettable finish that is measured not in minutes, but hours.

Vinification

During harvest, grapes are hand-picked in small baskets, directly pressed, and then spontaneously fermented with native yeasts in stainless steel at low temperature. After fortifying to 15% ABV with neutral grape spirits, this Palo Cortado Viejo spends 50 years in a solera of one single 350 liter cask, under both biological and oxidative aging. Gradually, through decades of evaporation, the alcohol has concentrated to 20% ABV. Manuel Aragón runs the scales in the traditional way, moving the wine through the solera manually, without mechanical pumps, utilizing gravity and the traditional tools of the canoa, jarra, sifón, and rocíador. Sulfur dioxide was not added at any point. It is bottled unfiltered and unfined.

Serving Recommendation

Cool room temperature, between 62° – 65° F in a wine glass

Region

Jerez-Xérès-Sherry

Village

Chiclana de la Frontera

Vineyard

Pago Marquesado

Soils

Chalky albariza barajuela

Grapes

Palomino Fino

Fermentation

Estate-grown grapes are hand-picked in small baskets with great care to avoid oxidation, directly pressed, and then spontaneously fermented with native yeasts in stainless steel at low temperature.