Palomino Fino
Palomino Fino
Bodegas Hidalgo La Gitana Pastrana Manzanilla Pasada
Spanish Fortified
$45.99
Golden and very dry, this single-vineyard Manzanilla Pasada combines sea-spray salinity with toasted almond, hazelnut and subtle oxidative notes. The palate is concentrated yet delicate, showing firm freshness, balance and a long, elegant finish. Made from Palomino Fino grown in the Pastrana vineyard in the Miraflores district, it is excellent with olives, cured meats, pâté, consommé, shellfish, fish or aged cheese. Serve well chilled.
El Maestro Sierra 15 Year Oloroso 375 mL
Spanish Fortified
$27.99
Hazelnut aromas and exotic spices accompany a richly textured, nutty profile. Made from Palomino, this dry fortified wine undergoes oxidative ageing in American oak butts. The base wine is fortified to eighteen percent alcohol. Ageing through a criaderas-and-solera system lasts fifteen years. The final wine contains nineteen percent alcohol and comes from Jerez de la Frontera.
Lustau Don Nuño Dry Oloroso Solera Reserva 375 mL
Spanish Fortified
$33.99
Bronze-amber colour with gold glints accompanies walnut, tobacco, sultana and leather. The palate is dry, full and rounded, with raisin, dark chocolate and spice. A long dry finish includes sultana, nutty tobacco leaf and spice. This Oloroso undergoes oxidative ageing for twelve years at Bodega La Campana in Jerez de la Frontera. Alcohol is twenty percent.
Bodegas Hidalgo Heredad Hidalgo Medium Amontillado
Spanish Fortified
$33.99
Full amber colour accompanies a medium-sweet style with complex, nutty character and a long palate. Palomino Fino is the grape. The family entered sherry production in 1792 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and the business has remained in family hands through six generations. Its vineyard holdings cover more than two hundred hectares, including some vines up to eighty years old.
Primitivo Collantes Fino Ceballos NV
Spanish Fortified
$37.99
Palomino Fino from the Pozo Galván vineyard grows on luminous albariza soils and rests for three years under flor. Olive brine, fresh meadow grass, green herbs and Marcona almonds meet a saline finish. The family’s vineyards also include Matalián and El Inglés around Chiclana de la Frontera. This dry Fino can accompany simply prepared seafood, cured ham or roast pork.
M. Antonio de la Riva Manzanilla Fina Miraflores Baja
Spanish Fortified
$73.99
Intense aromas of chalk and hydrocarbon notes sit above a saline palate marked by anise and basil. Palomino Fino comes mainly from the Casilla Verde vineyard in Miraflores Baja, around seven kilometres from the Atlantic, with a smaller share from neighbouring sites. The wine averages three to three and a half years under flor in a traditional criaderas-and-solera system.
Primitivo Collantes Amontillado Fino Fossi
Spanish Fortified
$64.99
Clear amber colour accompanies dried fruit, cereal aromas, preserves and pepper, with marked acidity and a balance of acidity and sweetness. Palomino Fino comes from the Matalián vineyard. Biological ageing under flor lasts five years; the wine is then fortified and continues through about ten years of oxidative ageing in the criaderas-and-solera system. The palate is fresh and savoury with saline notes.
Cota 45 2019 UBE Miraflores
Spanish White
$65.99
Flower aromas, very ripe white fruit and fresh yeast accompany a clean, balanced and saline profile. Palomino Fino comes from eight plots in Miraflores Alta and Baja with three types of albariza soil: lentejuelas, lustrillos and tosca cerrada. Fermentation takes place in Sherry butts, followed by eight months in selected butts; flor is present during the final two months.
De La Riva 2022 Macharnudo El Notario Vino de Pasto
Spanish White
$191.99
Palomino Fino comes from the El Notario parcel in Macharnudo. This unfortified white wine ages under a veil of flor in Sherry casks. Pale golden in colour, it combines floral notes, citrus fruit, bakery aromas and nuts. The profile is fresh, complex and mineral, with a long finish. Alcohol is fourteen percent, and production totals two thousand bottles.
Primitivo Collantes 2021 Socaire Palomino Fino
Spanish White
$59.99
Golden straw colour accompanies slate, flowers, ripe white fruit and lactic notes. The palate is broad and fresh, with mint and a long finish. Palomino Fino grows in albariza soils near Chiclana de la Frontera. The dry, unfortified white matures for about twenty-four months in old Fino barrels that remain topped, allowing a light influence from flor.
Callejuela 2019 Las Mercedes Añina
Spanish White
$48.99
Shining golden yellow, with green apple, pear skin and crystalline lemon peel carried by distinctly marine freshness. The palate is layered and savoury, combining hay, chalk and a quiet earthy note from flor with mouthwatering salinity. Complex without feeling heavy, it finishes lively and mineral, with the fruit held in a fine coastal frame.