This is truly world class. Grab it while (and if) you can! - La Bota Amontillado Bota A.R. #49

Mind-bending, Bottomlessly Complex
La Bota Amontillado Bota A.R. 49 375ml

"This is truly world class. Grab it while (and if) you can!"
-Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate

At this point, it's almost taken for granted that Equipo Navazos is turning out some of the most exciting wines around. Their limited releases of painstakingly and thoughtfully selected sherries take the category to a new level.

In terms of insane complexity, their recent releases from soleras that were owned by Gaspar Florido and are now in Pedro Romero's bodega inhabit a very special, elevated realm even in the context of La Bota.

In all likelihood, their Amontillado Bota AR #49 is the grandest, most soul-stirring release from these superlative soleras. Recently, the Amontillado #49 received a huge boost when the Wine Advocate's Luis Gutierrez placed it as absolute perfection in his review.

We're in one hundred percent agreement with Mr. Gutierrez. The #49 is beautiful in the most awe-inspiring, thrilling way.

It's an 80-year average age Amontillado from a single superlative bota (barrel). This is as complicated as wine gets.

Guitierrez's note captures this so well that's it merits this long quote: "It keeps changing in the glass, showing new nuances every five minutes: orange peel, spices, nutmeg, incense, seaweed, salted almonds, hazelnuts, iron, cigar ash... more and more marine as it warms up in contact with air."

This is the perfect time of the year for a wine like this. It's only a half-bottle, but it's so intense that you can only drink it in small doses and it lasts a good while once opened. You can meditate over a small glass for a long time as it evolves and develops increasingly mind-bending dimensions. This is one of the most epic and memorable things you'll ever drink.

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Joe Salamone
Wine Buyer
Crush Wine & Spirits

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rn ","inTOC":false,"regions":[{"label":"Title","type":"sl","tocTitle":false},{"label":"Description","type":"ml","tocTitle":false}]}]">Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate: "The breathtaking NV La Bota de Amontillado Bota A.R. 49 is an extremely old Amontillado - around 80 years old - purchased from Pedro Romero who had bought it from the now defunct Gaspar Florido. This wine was named after a rare breed of duck known as Ansa Real, hence the A.R. in the name. The wine is extremely old and concentrated, and age concentrates everything; alcohol (it boasts a whopping 22%, according to the label...), acidity, dry extract... What a beast! The aroma fills the room as soon as you pour a glass from the half bottle. The color is a dark amber/mahogany with a green edge denoting extreme age. The nose literally jumps form the glass: iodine, peat, smoke, roasted nuts in an intensity that is not common at all. It keeps changing in the glass, showing new nuances every five minutes: orange peel, spices, nutmeg, incense, seaweed, salted almonds, hazelnuts, iron, cigar ash... more and more marine as it warms up in contact with air. The palate is powerful, intense, concentrated and extreme (think a cask-strength Islay whisky, Port Ellen if possible), with saline, marine flavors (seaweed, shells) lifted by the alcohol to leave a warm, extremely long aftertaste. But what is remarkable is that within its brutality it's astonishingly balanced. This is an extreme wine to sip in small doses, as good as it gets. This wine will outlive us all, and probably our grandchildren too. A really unique wine; this is not a razor, it's an ax. Only 1,200 half bottles were bottled in January 2014 from a single cask. The price given is for a half bottle, and whether it's expensive or cheap is open for debate, but it's certainly a lot of money. The price of perfection. As a curiosity, if this wine is kept in the fridge, as I've seen with old, high-strength spirits (Malt Whisky again), it becomes cloudy and the nose fells blurry, so you should drink it slightly chilled, at cellar temperature, but without giving it any temperature shocks in the form of ice buckets or refrigerators. This is truly world class. Grab it while (and if) you can!"