Emilio Lustau (Almacenista) Manzanilla Pasada de Sanlucar 1/80 Manuel Cuevas Jurado

Nutty, toasty, almonds, seawater salinity. Has a big, thick glycerin body that coats your palate and gives it a long finish. Leaves you with the feeling of fruit skin tannins. Still, you don't really feel the 17% alcohol in it. A bit too intense and serious to guzzle down at a flamenco party. This one's more for contemplation. Excellent stuff.

Pale yellow. Balanced and not overly pronounced, much like a light amontillado. Slight tang, salinity, roasted apples, green olive.

Excellent!

Pale yellow gold. Inviting nose. Great intensity on the palate. Apple skin, nuts, almond, hey, chamomile, green olive, molasse and salt. Bone dry, and yet this Manzanilla finishes on an impression of syrupy sweetness. Very salty, with good body and great intensity, and very long. Hands down, one of the best Manzanillas I have had!

An Manzanilla Pasada (i.e. Manzanilla aged for longer than is typical) made by Almacenista Manuel Cuevas Jurado in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Bottled from a cask that belongs to a 80-cask solera system. Average age of bottled wine is around 7 years. 17% alcohol. Pale straw-yellow color with a deep, burnished golden yellow core. Pungent yet sweet and very attractive nose with layered aromas of syrupy molasses, some autolytic creamy notes, a little bit of earth, light aldehydic notes of hazelnuts …

Medium straw. Fresh and nutty. Flor. Toast and roasted apples. Caramel coffee. The palate is rich and full. Roasted fennel on the palate. Fresh long and fine. Classic manzanilla.

short note - flor, nutts, honey, salty (sea), mineralic, long finish, very good quality, 91p

Beau nez, mais milieu de bouche et finale peu présente

Damp nose full of flor with a floral note as well as bitter almonds. Later becomes quite mushroomy. Palate is salty, rather long and persistent but not heavy. Intense as a Pasada but well balanced, not overdone. Could have been richer though.

apricot-amber colour. nose: oxidized, with honey notes; robust and deep. taste: well biuld, dry, full of nuts, long finish. Very good.

Medium lemon colour. Lifted nose displaying aromas of acetaldehyde, chamomile, savoury yeast, almonds and hints of dried yellow apple. It is dry in the mouth with a bland acidity. The alcohol is medium for a fortified wine and it has a medium+ body. The flavour intensity is pronounced and the finish very long. It is a very good quality wine. The amazing length of the finish and the intensity of flavours is remarkable, it shows clearly the typicity of Manzanilla …

Monthly Tasting Group EEE #044; Wine, but slightly different. (@ PV) : In the bouquet flor, raisins, honey, nuts and ginger. On the palate caramel, ginger, dried apples hazelnuts and some bitterness in the finish.

Smooth. Caramel. Really changed from how it was originally. These wines can age!

No era su día, algo alcohólica, se echa en falta algo de complejidad. Algunos llegaron a decir desequilibrada.

Celebrando el cumpleaños de mi hermano empezamos por esta joyita que desapareció pronto de la mesa. Muy floral, 17% integradisimos, delicada pero a la vez con gran presencia de velo, dando notas de frutos secos en el final de boca junto con un toque que me encanta como de asfalto. El paso por boca es intenso de sabor pero, de nuevo, delicado en texturas, sabrosa y larga.

Sherry dinner (Frederikshøj) : At first quite extreme after the Jarana fino: sharp, kind of ultra fresh, salt and bitter - all this in an exciting and lively way. With air it becomes more approachable and even shows hints of golden fruit. Fantastic combination with a complex gambas dish. Outstanding.

super marmite nose bitterness, lemon very tangy and some roast pork

Really wanted to try this over a few nights, but didn't last 2 hours. Lemon lime, seaweed, toasted almonds. Saline and mineral with a medium finish. Very good.

Color is quite pale and youthful as manzanilla pasada goes. The nose is bright, fresh, chablis-like, with powerful notes of meyer lemon peel, oyster shell and sea breeze. On the palate, it literally makes you salivate - sappy, intensely salty, mouth-puckeringly citric, yet with an ever so sweet touch at the finish followed by a tail of chalk and salt. This is about as close to Chablis as any sherry I've experienced - there is more fruit, sap, grip and …

Heavy citrus; oak, a mild (and kind of "indirect") funkiness; nuttiness in the finish. Superbly balanced and very tasty.

Same as last bottle

From 50cl. cork stopper. Impressive seaside scent with beef jerky and iodine; the entry is dominated by rock salt and finest beef consommé. All in all a meaty proposition. Rich, even oily on the bone-dry mid-palate; long salty finish. 17% alc well hidden (until you try to stand up from the table...) 91P

This is the best Manzanilla I have had for many years. Absolutely spotless nose of salt, orange peel, blue tang, green herbs and cheese. Dry, but with a richness and smoothness which is amazing for a sherry.

A private lunch (Restaurant Fischers Fritz **, Berlin, Germany) : Dry, intense, nutty, hint of green olive, salty, floral, very good length.

I had a bad bottle of this, but the second one was just phenomenal. There is an unmistakable manzanilla salty vibrancy here, but it's coated with a nutty crunchy praliné-like accent of oxidation. Fresh and mineral and yet barely hints at the richness of an amontillado.

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Emilio Lustau (Almacenista) Manzanilla Pasada de Sanlucar 1/80 Manuel Cuevas Jurado

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