NV Equipo Navazos La Bota 117 Amontillado Navazos

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Zekun Shuai - JamesSuckling.com

Intense and salty, yet with elegance that shows even on the nose. Electric complexity and layers with salted caramel, iodine, toffee, sweet potato, spices and iodine. Super intense and creamy, with dissipated flavors in the back of the palate that grow and extend. Lots of finesse after lengthy aging of around 30 years. Endless. Saca from October, 2022.

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Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The NV La Bota de Amontillado Montilla 117 is a new Amontillado from Montilla-Moriles that was never bottled before. Selected from the cellars of Pérez-Barquero, the wine is between 25 to 30 years of average age, not fortified but bottled at 20% alcohol from pure concentration from evaporation, as the Fino that is the base for this wine was never fortified, which is the tradition in Montilla. It's a medium-age Amontillado with textbook characteristics and the evolution of the Fino Amontillado but with some 10 to 12 years more. It's nutty, pungent, intense and sapid, with a saline, iodine twist. This is a bottling from the summer 2022. 3,000 bottles produced.

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Sarah Jane Evans MW - Decanter

Bota 117 is, like so many of its predecessors, a grandee – it speaks powerfully and nobly of its origins. Equipo Navazos specialises in Sherries, but there are occasions when it finds that only Montilla does it better. As here: boldly aromatic with vanilla, orange marmelade, walnuts. In the mouth it's piquant, powerful and peppery, laden with dried fruits and nuts, with just a hint of bitterness on the finish. Perfect equilibrium.