Hijos de Rainera Perez Marin La Guita Manzanilla En Rama (375ML half-bottle)
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Robert
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La Guita En Rama is a perfect partner for tapas. Crunchy fried calamari, smoky serrano ham, earthy olives and salty cheeses pair beautifully with the light fresh style of this Fino Sherry.
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Smoke and brioche aromas. Elegant palate with subtle stony, iodine notes. Squeaky clean, with a salty delicacy.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I tasted the October 2017 bottling of the NV Manzanilla La Guita en Rama, from their solera fed with wine from Sanlúcar, mainly from the Pago Miraflores. This is a special barrel selection that is not fined or stabilized, and it's only lightly filtered to avoid solids going into the bottle. This is the second bottling after the 2015 one, and the idea is to bottle every two years rather than doing frequent bottlings, so the next one could be later this year. So, I caught it with some bottle age, which might have helped to settle the nose that was nuanced within the pungent and mineral style of the Miraflores vineyard. The palate was harmonious and felt polished and silky, elegant rather than powerful. It's interesting to see the evolution of these wines with time in bottle, with further development in the nose and more refinement in the palate. 15,500 375-milliliter bottles were filled in October 2017.
Sherry is a fortified wine that comes in many styles from dry to sweet. True Sherry can only be made in Andalucía, Spain where the soil and unique seasonal changes give a particular character to its wines. The process of production—not really the grape—determine the type, though certain types are reserved for certain grapes. Palomino is responsible for most dry styles; Pedro Ximénez and Muscat of Alexandria are used for blending or for sweet styles.
Known more formally as Jerez de la Frontera, Jerez is a city in Andalucía in southwest Spain and the center of the Jerez region and sherry production. Sherry is a mere English corruption of the term Jerez, while in French, Jerez is written, Xérès. Manzanilla is the freshest style of sherry, naturally derived from the seaside town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda.