Don PX Gines Liebana 1937

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Don PX Gines Liebana 1937

Older doesn't make it better. But when great age and great wine meet, there is little better in the wine world. This is a very sweet (500 g/l RS), very rare PX from Montilla. Whole bunches of PX were dried 8-10 days on mats, with 90 percent of the bunches flipped half way through. The bunches are pressed within pancakes of rusks to release their thick syrup. In the port-wine-style, distillate from the marc of the property is added to the fermenting must to bring it up to 18 degrees alcohol and killing off the remaining yeast, which rights the sugar levels as they are. The wine is left to settle in concrete for two years, after which it goes into 50-150 year old American oak barrels until just prior to bottling and release.

"The hard-to-believe 1937 Don PX Ginés Liébana, whose grapes must have been picked in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, belongs to the Ginés Liébana range. Like many older wines, it has lower alcohol, only 14%, while the concentration of sugar has grown to 410 grams per liter. At this age, I was expecting something more complex and dense, and I ended up going back to the 1980 for nuance and detail. Don't get me wrong, this is phenomenal, and if you're not used to this style of wine, you'll be blown away. But it felt relatively simpler, with intense aromas of raisins and a dense and oily palate dominated by those same notes. I'm often amazed at how little correlation age and quality seem to have in these old PX wines... This is a limited edition of 1,200 bottles and 24 magnums. It was bottled in September 2018. Drink 2019-2030.” - 96 points, Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate, June 28, 2019.