Toro Albala Poley Palo Cortado En Rama 25 Años NV 500mL

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Zekun Shuai - JamesSuckling.com

Sharp sourdough note with pecan kernels, dried yellow apples, nori and a hint of chalk. Saline, flavorful and elegant in nature, with the sleek center palate gliding into a savory, briny finish. Lengthy yet subtle in finish, melding the saline punch and oxidative complexity together. Glass stopper.

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Jacobo Garcia-Andrade Llamas - JamesSuckling.com

This Montilla Palo Cortado has a lovely nose showing hazelnuts, orange rind and caramel with some terra cotta. This is intense and really flavorful, with caramel notes that mingle with cedar. Well-delineated freshness makes it very harmonious. This has a long, penetrating finish. It comes from a solera with an average age of 25 years.

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Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The April 2024 bottling of the NV Poley Palo Cortado en Rama Solera 25 Años, which now carries the bottling date printed on the back label to be able to tell it apart from other bottlings, displays a bright orange color and a nose that reminds me more of an Oloroso with finesse than a biological wine, but apparently, it comes from old Fino aged in a warmish cellar that favors oxidative aging. It comes in half-liter bottles. It has a powerful palate, concentrated, with some rusticity, 20.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.3 coupled with 7.9 grams of acidity and a bone-dry finish. 8,500 bottles were filled in April 2024.

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Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2018 bottling of NV Palo Cortado Marqués de Poley Selección is believed to be around 20 years of average age, produced with Pedro Ximénez grapes in a solera. They say the wine has the nose of an Amontillado and the palate of an Oloroso. To be honest, this has more character of Oloroso than many other Palo Cortado I tasted next to it, as it lacks the finesse of the best. It's quite dark, concentrated and round, full-bodied and with nice Oloroso character.

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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 Palo Cortado en Rama Solera 25 Años a Palo Cortado, which has 20% alcohol and 25 years of average age. It's nutty, spirity and peachy, with a touch of varnish and a sleek palate, pungent and moderately bitter, very pleasant to drink. All Poley wines now come in 500-milliliter bottles. There's no clear indication of saca or bottling date. 10,000 bottles were produced. Anticipated maturity: 2022 - 2026.

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Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

There is a new November 2024 bottling of the NV Poley Palo Cortado en Rama Solera 25 Años, which now carries the bottling date printed on the back label to be able to tell it apart from other bottlings. The wine displays a bright orange color and a nose that reminds me more of an Oloroso with finesse than a biological wine, but apparently, it comes from old Fino aged in a warmish cellar that favors oxidative aging. It comes in half-liter bottles. It has a powerful palate, concentrated, with some rusticity, 20.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.1 coupled with 8.4 grams of acidity and a bone-dry finish. 9,000 bottles were filled in November 2024.