En Jerez, oenological paradise, the Tío Pepe Finos Palmas Collection. A few wines with unique and unrepeatable features with which a historical legacy is recovered. Like every year at the end of the summer, Antonio Flores, winemaker of Gonzalez Byass, has carried out the work of selection and classification in the winery. In it are discovered those boots in which the vigor of the "flower" has given an intense character to Fine.
The new take out of "The Ages of Tío Pepe" it has been greatly influenced by the weather year. This year, marked by a mild winter and a cool summer. Two circumstances that have determined and favored the conservation of the "flower". For all this in this edition, the winemaker has had the help of Natasha Hughes MW.
With patience, wisdom and veneration in hand, the two masters have traveled the González Byass wineries. Everything to find the most elegant shades in the boots that have been chalked with One, Two, Three and Four Palms.
The result has been excellent and the unmistakable style of Tio Pepe it is very present in these oenological works of art. One and Two Palms They are a clear example of how far biological aging can go in two fines. Also of the two terroirs de Sherry: the vineyard and the winery.
Three palms it is sublime and marks that fine line that separates biological from oxidative aging. For its part, Four palms shows the capacity of the Fine Palomino to grow old with elegance and nobility.
Uncle Pepe One Palm
Payments of Marcharnudo and Carrascal express the best of the land of Jerez in Tío Pepe Una Palma. The solera, with more than 6 years of biological aging, is made up of 139 boots. Of these, No. 2, No. 9 and No. 10 of the second floor of the Great Tío Pepe Winery. To this Fino intense, saline, savory and mineral.
Uncle Pepe Dos Palmas
With 8 years of long aging for this Fino sublime gives us a perfect balance between floor and veil. The selection of boots No. 1 and No. 6 of the 148 that make up the solera Amontillado Fino from the Gran Bodega Tío Pepe. Without a doubt it is the purest definition of a Fine old.
Uncle Pepe Tres Palmas
Biological aging to the limit. In this way, a Fine Amontillado between life and death. Its 10 years of aging in contact with the flower give it a unique character. Only one boot, No. 5, has been selected from the 149 of the solera Historic Amontillado Fino of La Constancia.
Uncle Pepe Cuatro Palmas
53 years of aging. For this reason it is complex, intense and sharp. Time and the winery have turned this Amontillado Very Old in a handkerchief wine. Also in a perfume of the Sherry. The selection of a single boot, # 1, that ages in La Constancia Solera Museum.
What are the Palms?
Las Palmas are denominations that, as defined Manuel Maria González-Gordon in the book 'Jerez-Xerez-Sherry', they are applied to those fine wines from Jerez that are remarkably distinguished. For its cleanliness, finesse and delicacy in the aroma. The number of palms is proportional to their degree of old age.
These wines are the result of the strenuous work of selection and classification by age and fineness of the best fine wines. Those that have been taking place since 1880.
