In the glass
Aroma: hazelnut, dried fig, walnut, leather, sea breeze
Palate: caramel, dried orange, rancio, saline mineral, coffee
Palo Cortado from Sanlúcar with the hazelnut nose of Amontillado and the full, rancio palate of Oloroso; the intermediate style at its most distinct.
What it pairs with
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Cured ham with aged cheese board
The wine's dual personality bridges the salty-dry and the nutty-rich. -
Duck confit
Rich game fat requires the wine's combined acidity and oxidative weight. -
Grilled sardines
Oily fish with charred skin echoes the wine's dried-orange and saline notes.
History
Palo Cortado is the rarest and most unpredictable sherry style, arising when a cask destined for Fino or Manzanilla biological ageing spontaneously loses its flor coverage partway through development. Barbadillo's Obispo Gascón, named after a 19th-century Bishop of Cádiz, is a consistently bottled Palo Cortado from the Sanlúcar designation, offering the distinctive Amontillado-Oloroso hybrid profile.
- 1825 — Obispo Gascón Palo Cortado designation established at Barbadillo
Facts
- Producer
- Bodegas Barbadillo
- Grapes
- Palomino Fino
- Classification
- DO Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda
- Oak
- Rare biological-to-oxidative transition; intermediate solera combining Amontillado and Oloroso characteristics
- ABV
- 20.0%
- Price
- €18-30 at retail
- Drinking window
- 5-25 from bottling
- First vintage
- 1825