Bodegas Alvear Pedro Ximenez Solera 1927 Size:375ml

Bodegas Alvear Pedro Ximenez Solera 1927 Size:375mlBodegas Alvear do not make Sherry. They make wines that taste a lot like sherry, look a lot like sherry and are as good as any sherry we have ever tasted, but these are wines from Montilla, some two and a half hours drive north east of Jerez. Alvears Solera 1927 (which contains some wines from before the Wall Street Crash) tastes like all your Christmases have arrived at once. A naturally sweet wine with a nose reminiscent of prunes and chocolate.

with high levels of rainfall bringing on botrytis in some areas

Time - The lost element in today’s winemaking

018 ft (920m) elevation: ripe plum fruit flavours and silky texture

A little softer

Organically grown on two small blocks at Two Paddocks home vineyard (HQ)

This single vineyard Gavi has an enticing nose of white peach and acacia blossoms with just a hint of crystallised ginger

hints of fragrant flower and perfume aromas

Williams Chase Elegant Gin and the famous Chase Marmalade Vodka

The wine was then aged in the same stainless steel tanks on fine lees until bottling

Pale lemon in colour

or a platter of firm mature cheeses

Take a jug or long drink glass and fill it with ice