Bodegas Valdespino 2016 'La Especial' Manzanilla Sherry, Pago de Miraflores, Sanlucar de Barrameda DO

Since 2015, first vintage Manzanilla released by Valdespino, every year a series of casks have been selected to be part of this exceptional vintage collection. The second release of these collection was 2016, and once again Valdespino picked a few casks showing unique finnesse and elegance during its initial phase of biological aging, when the ‘flor’ was in full development. This Manzanilla wine came exclusively from the Pago Miraflores, the “Grand Cru” of Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

In this second vintage, 30 casks were sealed, thus complying with the requirements set down by the Sherry and Manzanilla de Sanlúcar Regulatory Council for the classification of vintage wines.

The first tasting of the 2016 vintage Manzanilla took place in October 2023 at Valdespino. A committee formed by technicians, sales and marketing experts chose 12 casks out of the 30 which made up this vintage.

The selection was based on the wine’s refined, intense and elegant character. The casks had in common a great delicacy and the structure required to have a complex evolution in the bottle.

The selected casks (numbers 2, 5,6,8,10,11,13,17,19,20,24 and 27) were blended and bottled in a final batch of 6,060 bottles in April 2024. This vintage Manzanilla is presented “en rama”, that is, bottled directly from the cask with minimal filtration in order to preserve its organoleptic characteristics intact.