Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) 050326OFFER Foti The result is Chardonnay with

The result is Chardonnay with cut and tension: brioche and almond skin on top

it offers amazing aromatics of fresh melon

and tastes like the place: red fruit and wild herbs threaded with white pepper and a saline

and it sends a quarter of its profits into its own foundation

which is the variety that we see most often in our Negronis

Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) 050326OFFER Foti The result is Chardonnay withIt smells like walnuts, toffee and old leather, and then it finishes bone dry. That contradiction is the whole point of oloroso, and Don Gonzalo is one of the great ones. Valdespino is among the oldest houses in Jerez, and this is their old guard oloroso: palomino, fortified, then aged in a solera with no flor covering it, so decades of slow contact with air do all the work. The VOS designation is a certification rather than marketing copy, meaning