Equipo Navazos La Bota 124 "Un Fino que va para amontillado…" (Fino Amontillado)

A Fino on its first steps toward becoming an Amontillado. It's a 15-year-old wine sourced from the oldest fino solera in Pérez Barquero's Bodega Los Amigos. From here, twelve butts were selected that showed amontillado notes and yet preserved fino character. It remains a true fino, aged under a fragile layer of flor. It's a fascinating, deep and elegant wine, exceptionally versatile at the table. Bottled in November 2023, unfined and virtually unfiltered, its golden colour is the same as straight from the barrel.

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Similar to La Bota de Fino 85 from October 2018, the NV La Bota de Fino 124 Un Fino que va para Amontillado… is from Montilla-Moriles and produced with Pedro Ximénez grapes. This wine, from the same origin as edition 24, 45 and 85, would be called Fino Amontillado if it wasn't forbidden. They have taken biological aging under flor to an extreme, close to 15 years, and the wine was never fortified. The grapes were close to 15% alcohol, and the alcohol level increased to 16.5% through evaporation and concentration. It has power and great finesse, a textbook Fino nose with a volatile touch that gives it complexity and lifts up the wine. It has finesse, it's getting complex and it's getting polished by the time in bottle. It has pungent flavors, notes of esparto, hazelnuts and varnish, and a touch of bitterness in the finish. 2,800 bottles were filled in 2023. Drink 2023-2032.
96 points
Luis Gutiérrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate