Reviews
Technical Details
- BlendPalomino
- CountrySpain
- RegionJerez
- AppellationSanlucar de Barrameda
- Alcohol22%
Equipo Navazos #51 Bota de Palo Cortado Bota G.F NV (half bottle 375mL)
If you know, you know! The Equipo Navazos sherries are true “insider” wines, so we are blown away to have a small parcel of the jaw-dropping Paolo Cortado that just landed. WOW! Built from Palomino Fino and touched with the perfect kiss of sweetness The GF stands for Gaspar Florido, a grower in Sanlucar where this cask was likely born from. Just 1,200 bottles of the magical elixir were filled from this single cask from a Solera between the age of 50 and 80 years old. An incredible and VERY RARE opportunity, to own and taste some bottled history. Chances like this do not come around often.
From Eric Solomon: "Gaspar Florido used to market two very old wines sourced from their soleras at their old cellaring facility at calle Rubiños, in the heart of the “Barrio” in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. When they decided to seize the real estate fever and sell their urban bodegas they had to move those butts to a shabby facility on the road from Sanlúcar to Trebujena. There is where I had the opportunity to sample them for the first time, on a visit with Álvaro Girón to an already old Gaspar in June 2006. We were very positively impressed by their quality and consistency, especially in contrast with the lack of distinction–to put it mildly–of the context there and then. There were quite a few butts of the outstanding GF-25 and only a few of GF-30, a very old and absolutely spectacular wine. It is precisely from the latter that this La Bota de Palo Cortado #51 Bota GF is sourced, a return to this source from our #41 Bota NO."