1956 Don PX Convento Seleccion

The 1956 Don PX Convento Selección has a smoky note of coal, bitter chocolate and licorice and, with time, becomes creamier, with echoes of milk chocolate and café au lait, with a clearly lactic/creamy note. It has 16.5% alcohol and 390 grams of sugar. It's thick and dense, complex, with flavors of licorice, powder cocoa, hot chocolate and dark raisins. Apparently, the barrels were never moved from the same, cooler part of their cellars where the wine matured for over 65 years. This is elegant and nuanced; it gives more pleasure than the 1943, but it's not necessarily better. 3,850 numbered bottles were produced. It was bottled in November 2023.