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Jacobo Garcia-Andrade Llamas - JamesSuckling.com
This shows aromas of dried dates, candied oranges and hints of toffee. It’s not terribly concentrated for an oloroso, but it’s delicious and zesty with a dry apricot finish. A pleasant and uncomplicated oloroso. Glass stopper.
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Robert Parker Wine Advocate
To finish with their dry wines, all of them offered in half-liter bottles, the NV Oloroso Marques De Poley also produced from Pedro Ximenez grapes (as all these wines from Montilla-Moriles) feels sweeter, lighter and less intense tasted next to the Amontillado . The color is a bright orange, and the youthful nose is redolent of dry apricots, toffee and walnuts. Medium- to full-bodied, velvety, it has the telltale toffee and caramel flavors of an Oloroso. The strong bitter note makes an appearance again in the finish. Drink 2013-2017.
This is a peculiar winery, a little eccentric and unusual, a family affair created in 1922 although their roots can be traced back to the 19th century. The core of the winery is located inside an old electricity plant in Aguilar de la Frontera, south of Cordoba, in the heart of the Montilla-Moriles appellation and directed by collector, inventor and entrepreneur Antonio Sanchez. They sell 650,000 liters of wine per year, of which 40% is exported and sold in 27 different countries. They are growing in the US, the UK, Australia, and also with increasing interest in Asia, “mainly for the sweet wines,” Antonio Sorgato, the export manager of the firm, tells me. “We are selling sweet wines, but Fino, it’s much more difficult.” This is not something unique to them, as the whole Montilla-Moriles is better known for its sweet, dark, unctuous Pedro Ximenez wines. All the wines they produce are of course fermented from Pedro Ximenez white grapes, but for the sweet wines the grapes are sun-dried, dehydrated into raisins, and the resulting wine is brown in color which gets darker as the wine ages and concentrates in barrel. The oldest examples are an opaque black with an amber rim as dense as motor oil. They have a most impressive collection of single vintage PX wines going back to the time of the Second World War.
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Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The April 2024 bottling of the NV Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Años, which now has the bottling date printed on the back label, displays a bright amber color and a shy nose with subtle aromas of nuts and peach. It has only 17.5% alcohol and was fortified 1% or so, the rest is natural and from concentration. It has a velvety and warm palate, gentle and dry, with some lightness. 12,000 half-liter bottles were filled in April 2024.
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Robert Parker Wine Advocate
Names have changed and all labels are new; they are all named Poley and have a reference to the number of average years the wines have spent in the solera, like the NV Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Años, which is an Oloroso with 18% alcohol and 15 years of average age. It's young, faintly oxidative with a lightish palate and soft flavors. A small Oloroso. All Poley wines now come in 500-milliliter bottles. There's no clear indication of saca or bottling date. 12,000 bottles were produced.
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Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker Wine Advocate
To finish with their dry wines, all of them offered in half-liter bottles, the NV Oloroso Marques De Poley also produced from Pedro Ximenez grapes (as all these wines from Montilla-Moriles) feels sweeter, lighter and less intense tasted next to the Amontillado . The color is a bright orange, and the youthful nose is redolent of dry apricots, toffee and walnuts. Medium- to full-bodied, velvety, it has the telltale toffee and caramel flavors of an Oloroso. The strong bitter note makes an appearance again in the finish. Drink 2013-2017. This is a peculiar winery, a little eccentric and unusual, a family affair created in 1922 although their roots can be traced back to the 19th century. The core of the winery is located inside an old electricity plant in Aguilar de la Frontera, south of Cordoba, in the heart of the Montilla-Moriles appellation and directed by collector, inventor and entrepreneur Antonio Sanchez. They sell 650,000 liters of wine per year, of which 40% is exported and sold in 27 different countries. They are growing in the US, the UK, Australia, and also with increasing interest in Asia, “mainly for the sweet wines,” Antonio Sorgato, the export manager of the firm, tells me. “We are selling sweet wines, but Fino, it’s much more difficult.” This is not something unique(more...)
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Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The November 2024 bottling of the NV Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Años, which now has the bottling date printed on the back label, displays a bright amber color and a shy nose with subtle aromas of nuts and peach. It has 18.5% alcohol and was fortified 1% or so (from 15% natural alcohol to 16%), the rest is natural from concentration and evaporation. It has a velvety and warm palate, gentle and dry, with some lightness. 14,000 half-liter bottles were filled in November 2024.
