-Tasting notes
   Colour: Dark mahogany
                              Taste: Solid, smooth and silky, very tasty
                              Bouquet: Warm aroma with notes of sun ripened fruits & dried figs

-Alcohol content: 15º         Vintage: Current year
-Grape variety: Pedro Ximénez
-Denomination of Origin: Montilla Moriles

Temperature   Serve cool, but not cold 16º  Evolution Improve with age  Best consume (once opened) It is not affected

Ways to serve   Small tulip shaped glass to half the capacity, to full appreciate its delicate
   aroma.

Drink with...   Superlative Spanish dessert wines. Excellent with blue cheese.

    
Prizes   
   
               


Dessert wines Pedro Ximenez are one of the most original dessert wines in the world. A soldier in Spanish army names it after the grape variety originally grown, it is said, from cutting of wines from Rhine brought to Andalusia centuries ago.

The grape bunches are spread out in the sun on the "paseros" (esparto matts). Every day the bunches are carefully turned to ensure an even toasting in the hot southern Spanish sun, until they are practically raisins. The aim is to reduce the liquid content of the grape, so that the resulting must will contain more than 300 grams of sugar per liter. When the grapes reach the desired degree of sweetness, they are crushed and, before fermentation starts, fortified to nine percent alcohol.

The resulting wine is called vino tierno, tender wine. Next, the alcohol level is increased progressively to 16-18 percent and the wine is matured following the solera and criadera system.

The characteristics of these Spanish dessert wines are a dark mahogany-colored with deep raisiny aromas. Smooth and sweet in the mouth. Full, vigorous, and perfectly balanced. Its alcohol content is around 15º.

A magnificient example of these dessert wines is PEDRO XIMENEZ SOLERA FUNDACIONAL, honoured by the Golden Bacchus award in 1999. The Bacchus award is the most prestigious Spanish award in the wine industry and a worldwide recognize contest where every year compite dessert wines from the most reputated wineries from all over the world.

PEDRO XIMENEZ SELECCION DE ROBLES 1927, PEDRO XIMENEZ ROBLES and PEDRO XIMENEZ DE AÑADA are other worldwide recognized Pedro Ximenez dessert wines.

Also, PIEDRA LUENGA PEDRO XIMENEZ, our organic Pedro Ximenez dessert wine.


• Keep the dessert wines bottles in a cool place.

• Optimum temperature below 22º without noticeable variations.

• Do not store together with substances of strong or unpleasant smell.

• Avoid noise, light and high temperatures.

• Store the bottle in vertical position.

• Avoid exposure to sun and do not store near coffee machines or others generators of heat.

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 Bottle
Frasca 500 ml.
 Box  (NºBottles)
     Box 12 cardboard case    of 1 Bottle
Characteristics
Maturing system
Norms for correct keeping
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