Equipo Navazos La Bota de Manzanilla
Pasada "1/15" Nº 10
OK, now this is more like it. My last bottle of this seemed
confused. After reading a tweet from Levi about a great bottle that he and
Peter Liem had enjoyed, I decided to open one of mine at Bar Mateo, the new
tapas bar downtown. We drank this out of red wine glasses instead of sherry
glasses and it helped the wine to blossom, we also followed it over the course
of several hours. It has a cool copper color and the nose is a million things
at once. The most salient feature of the wine is the umami-like quality it has
on the palate. The nose has saline notes that give way to raw almond skin and
then to dried yellow fruitcake like fruits. Went really well with most of the
food but especially well with some Iberico and Johnston County Mangalista ham.
I don't have any idea whether to age this or not. I have a few more bottles
that it will be hard not to drink soon.
