-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: 8 years
-Grape variety: Pedro Ximénez
-Denomination of Origin: Montilla Moriles

   Serve cool, but not cold 16º   Improve with age   It is not affected

   Small tulip shaped glass to half the capacity, to full appreciate its fragance
   and intense bouquet.


   Superlative aging wine for greats occasions. Excellent dessert wine with blue    cheese.

    
   SILVER MEDAL, HOFEX dessert wine, Hong-Kong, 1999
   SILVER MEDAL, Wine World Championship, Chicago,USA 1998
   SILVER BACCHUS,International competition for aging wine, Spain 1997
             GOLD ZARCILLO, Prizes Zarcillo of aging wine, Valladolid, Spain 1993

The aging wine Pedro Ximenez is one of the most original 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 dessert 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.

This aging wine is 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 this Spanish aging wine is PEDRO XIMENEZ SOLERA FUNDACIONAL, a dessert wine 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 wines from the most reputated wineries from all over the world.

PEDRO XIMÉNEZ SELECCIÓN DE ROBLES 1927, PEDRO XIMÉNEZ ROBLES and PEDRO XIMÉNEZ DE AÑADA are other worldwide recognized Pedro Ximenez aging wines.

Also the dessert wine, PIEDRA LUENGA PEDRO XIMÉNEZ, our organic dessert wine Pedro Ximénez.

• Keep in a cool place this dessert wine.

• 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.

            

Bottle	Bottle mesh 750 ml.	Frasca 500 ml.
Box (NºBottles)	12 Bottles	Box 12 cardboard case of 1 Bottle