NV Equipo Navazos La Bota 124 Fino "Un fino que va para amontillado"
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Similar to La Bota de Fino 85 from October 2018, the NV La Bota de Fino 124 Un Fino que va para Amontillado… is from Montilla-Moriles and produced with Pedro Ximénez grapes. This wine, from the same origin as edition 24, 45 and 85, would be called Fino Amontillado if it wasn't forbidden. They have taken biological aging under flor to an extreme, close to 15 years, and the wine was never fortified. The grapes were close to 15% alcohol, and the alcohol level increased to 16.5% through evaporation and concentration. It has power and great finesse, a textbook Fino nose with a volatile touch that gives it complexity and lifts up the wine. It has finesse, it's getting complex and it's getting polished by the time in bottle. It has pungent flavors, notes of esparto, hazelnuts and varnish, and a touch of bitterness in the finish. 2,800 bottles were filled in 2023
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
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Full bottle 1,202 g. Bottled November 2023. Mid gold. Smells richer than your typical fino, with a hint of caramelised nuts and dried apricot even if I know it is going to be a dry wine. Lots of lovely dried grasses and brine but with so much richness and texture – chewy, powerful and with what tastes like sweet/sour yellow fruit entangled with the nutty flavours of flor ageing. So complex and captivating and then intensely salty and mouth-wateringly fresh on the finish. Impossible to describe well. (JH)