NV La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 'Capataz Cabo' No 90

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Score 96-97/100 · Drink 2019-2030, Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate, Jun 2019

The new bottling of the extraordinary saga of old Manzanilla Pasada 10, 30, 59 and 90 is the NV La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 110 Capataz Cabo, from a solera filled with wine from Sanlúcar, mostly from the Pago Miraflores, that averages 10 years under flor and a further five years topped up with wine taken from all or most of the barrels in the solera. This bottling has resulted in a very balanced wine with intensity, freshness, complexity and drinkability, very difficult attributes to combine. This is the most complex and nuanced of Manzanilla Pasada before turning into Amontillado. It has gobsmacking precision and purity, defined and clean, laser cut like a diamond. This could be the most elegant and precise of all the bottlings of this wine. Cuts like a knife? No, cuts like a scalpel! 3,200 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2022.

Critic scores

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97
97/100

Average Score

19
19/20

Jancis Robinson MW

97
96-97/100

Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate

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19 points
Jancis Robinson MW
Score 19/20 · Drink 2019-2025, Jancis Robinson MW, Jun 2019

3,000 bottles. Same solera as previous releases, 8 out of 15 casks in La Gita. Very old Manzanilla filled right to the top and with a feeble, narrow layer of flor. Probably 15 years old. Solera originally intended to beef up the basic La Gita but it was forgotten until the La Bota 10 release by Equipo Navazos. Topping it up gives it more energy and life. Golden colour. Wonderfully intense and honeyed nose but not sweet, the wild grasses of the Fino, a salty intense richness on the nose, sour apricot, a Pandora’s box of aromas that you cannot disentangle sufficiently to describe. The intensity here is quite remarkable but it has not got to the stage where sherry can be almost too intense and too sour. This is smoky, so dry, precise and powerful, almost sweaty on the finish. Utterly saliva-provoking. Stunning length and complexity. (JH)

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