In the glass
Aroma: roasted walnuts, tobacco leaf, dark dried fruit, toasted oak
Palate: dark coffee, caramel, dried plum, smoky wood spice
Rich, deep Oloroso from the Lustau Solera Reserva. Dark amber with roasted nuts, tobacco, dried fruit and a long, dry and warming finish.
What it pairs with
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Slow-cooked oxtail or venison
The oxidative richness and full body match braised dark-meat intensity. -
Manchego curado (aged)
The nutty, slightly savoury character complements sheep's milk cheese. -
Smoked almonds
Smoky and nutty descriptors in the wine harmonise with smoked nuts.
History
Don Nuño Oloroso is part of Lustau's Solera Reserva range, presenting a fully dry Oloroso aged without any flor contact. The name honours the tradition of naming sherries after distinguished Spanish figures. Aged entirely under oxidative conditions in American oak butts at Lustau's Jerez bodega.
- 1980 — Don Nuño Oloroso included in Lustau Solera Reserva launch
Facts
- Producer
- Emilio Lustau
- Grapes
- Palomino Fino
- Classification
- DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry
- Oak
- American oak butts; fully oxidative solera in the Lustau Solera Reserva range; average 10 years
- ABV
- 20.0%
- Price
- €14-22 at retail
- Drinking window
- 0-5 from bottling
- First vintage
- 1980