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Dos Cortados Solera Especial – VORS

Palo cortado. Fortified wine from D.O. Jerez – Xérès – Sherry. Oxidative aging under the dynamic Solera and Criadera system

Type of grape: Palomino
Vineyards: Pago Añina, Balbaína and Carrascal (Superior Sherry)
Old age: Minimum average of 30 years
Alcohol content: 21.5% Vol
Profile: Dry

Tasting note

Wine with a color between old gold and amber, very bright. Very pungent, intense, and complex aroma with light notes of dried fruits and hazelnuts. Dry, with just the right acidity, full-bodied and very elegant character, persistent in the mouth, extremely expressive on the nose, and not easily forgotten.

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Juan José Mesa Winemaker View profiles

Serving Suggestions

Ideal for consuming with nuts, aged cheeses, and at the table with well-concentrated consommés, stews, or gelatinous meats such as oxtail or pork cheeks.

Serve between 12º and 14º temperature.

Supplementary information

Elaboration: Palo Cortado is a peculiar wine, often described as a sherry with the nose of an Amontillado and the palate of an Oloroso. Originally, when Jerez wines were fermented in barrels, the musts were classified according to their finesse for biological aging or as press musts destined for oxidative aging. For the production of Palo Cortado, those musts with special finesse that may have undergone some biological aging are fortified to 18º, thus beginning their oxidative aging. It can be said, therefore, that these are sherries with a “delicate oxidative aging”.

For the production of Dos Cortados, Bodegas Williams Humbert makes a selection of their soleras that stand out for their finesse, as well as their vintages, with which they refresh their Palo Cortado soleras, a wine that ages for 30 years through the Criaderas and Soleras system. The next extractions of this emblematic Palo Cortado from the winery will be classified as VORS (30 years of age).