What it pairs with
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Vanilla ice cream (drizzled)
The concentrated sweetness and dark-fruit warmth of PX on cold vanilla is the quintessential Jerez dessert combination. -
Churros with dark chocolate
The viscous sweetness matches the richness of deep-fried dough and chocolate dipping sauce. -
Cabrales blue cheese
The intense sweetness cuts through the salt and pungency of Asturian blue cheese.
History
El Candado ('the padlock') PX takes its name from the padlocked casks that Valdespino used to mark their most precious Pedro Ximénez barrels. The solera is maintained from sun-dried PX grapes from the Montilla-Moriles region, pressed and fermented at Valdespino before ageing through the oxidative solera in Jerez.
- 1910 — El Candado PX solera founded at Valdespino
Facts
- Producer
- Bodegas Real Tesoro y Valdespino
- Grapes
- Pedro Ximénez
- Classification
- DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry
- Oak
- American oak butts; oxidative solera; average 8-10 years
- ABV
- 15.5%
- Price
- €16-24 at retail
- Drinking window
- 0-10 from bottling
- First vintage
- 1910