NV La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada “Bota Punta” No 80
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From a single cask of ‘very peculiar character’, located at the extreme of the solera. The average age of this wine is approximately 15 years. The intense biological character of this wine is due to the fact that the butts are filled up to a tocadedos level – well above the five-sixths mark that is common in the sherry district. Bottled December 2017. Medium gold. Gorgeously deep and complex aroma. Like non-sweet butterscotch but also with an unusual steely character, and hay and dried grasses in the sun, plus an aroma that I associate with bitter tangy flavours but cannot connect with a particular fruit. Smells somehow chalky. This wine has the amazing ability to make you salivate even before you taste it, and even more so when you have tasted it. Incredibly intense and it seems to search out the back of your palate. Endless, glorious. VGV (JH)
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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The next of the single-cask Manzanilla Pasada (80, 60, 50, 40 and 20) is the NV La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 100 Botas NO, selected from three butts (botas, in plural) to have more volume of the wine number 100. It's a bottling that always had more demand than supply. So, they made more bottles—2,700 half-liter ones and some larger formats. It was bottled in October 2020. Like in previous bottlings, it's bottled at 16.5% alcohol at an estimated average age of 15 years, the first 10 years under flor and the subsequent five with the barrels fully topped up, following an oxidative aging. This has more concentration and extract than the 110 I tasted next to it, but I favored the elegance and finesse of that other one. Still, it's a stratospheric wine, an explosion of concentration, flavors and minerality, a little more oxidative.