Toro Albala, Don PX Gran Reserva, Montilla-Moriles

WCC Spanish Red Wines (The Chef's Table in Café Capriccio, Albany, NY) : [Pop and pour.] Muted nose of brown sugar and stewed plums. Rich, complex, and long. I just love this stuff! Goes well with the Flourless Chocolate Cake.

1975 vintage

WCC Spanish (Cafe Capriccio) : Apparently I had this 14 years ago. My descriptions haven't changed - "Incredibly dark and viscous in appearance; intensely sweet with rich caramel, dried fruits, molasses and roasted almond flavours with moderate acidity underneath" - but I found myself liking it more this time. The pairing with the outstanding chocolate dessert certainly helped.

1975 vintage

Intense mix of chocolate, dark dried fruit, prune, raisin, vanilla, menthol, milk chocolate, burnt caramel. Surprisingly restrained, but still plenty intense.

1982 vintage

Drinking absolutely wonderfully. It's like delicious fig flavored motor oil, hard to imagine but that's the best I can do.

1982 vintage

50. Geburtstag: Unglaublich dicht ölig samtig Walnuss Dörrobst alles sehr geschmeidig. Komplex. Ewig langer Abgang. Perfekt zu trinken jetzt

1971 vintage

50th Birthday celebrations. A long evening culminating in the PX. Wonderful finish to a magnificent evening with some great friends. The wines holding up better than those celebrating.

1971 vintage

I've drunk this bottle over several weeks, and while it is perfectly enjoyable, I really can't understand some of the ratings being given here. It's an OK sweet wine to sip with dessert or (some) cheeses. There's a reasonable balance of sweetness, acidity, and a variety of flavours including sweet raisins, toffee and caramel. But that makes it "very good" (hence my 87 rating). It is far from outstanding, and not the best PX that I've drunk by a long …

1982 vintage

Huge, dark resonant with toffee, butterscotch almond raisin notes. A brilliant expression of Pedro Ximenez a palate bursting with dark richness of caramel coating and dried raisins and figs with a single malt balance of alcohol, expressed the fine grained woody texture and enhance richness that we added by pairing with a friends homemade truffles. Decadence at its finest.

1982 vintage

Strong nose but salted caramel finish. Would be great on ice cream.

1975 vintage

Inn at Dos brisas

1971 vintage

The !*&#show (Spring (Downtown Los Angeles)) : My other wine of the night. Like motor oil in color/viscosity. Beautiful nose of dates, plums, snd dark, sweet red fruit. Great, lively acidity on the palate, and invigorating finish...fantastic texture and poise.

1971 vintage

Spanish Wines (Liz's House) : Thanks to the host for sharing this old sherry. The nose on this wine is a janitor's closet, with fungus and volatile chemicals. The palate is nothing like that, caramel, rich toffee, spice. Quite sweet, this is dessert in a glass. There is enough acidity for balance. The palate had great complexity, and a treat to drink a wine from this year.

1975 vintage

Awesome

1982 vintage

Dark brown. A massive nose of walnuts, dried figs, prunes, rough leather and liquorice. Explosive and intense nose. The palate is equally imposing. Big sweetness, like drinking an old prune-fig smoothie, intense and very unctuous. Cut with piercing acidity. Excellent; very unusual.

1982 vintage

Color and viscosity of motor oil. Mouthful of figs, dates, and raisins; accompanied by some toffee. Pulled off a pairing with chocolate cake, but this is a niche wine that is likely best served on its own, in a small pour.

1982 vintage

Super tasty with dates and raisins and sweet goodness without the surfeiting thickness of other PX I've had. $11 btg at Lucques.

1971 vintage

I loved this wine. Dark, dark red in color and crazy viscous. Caramel, raisins, and coffee throughout. Basically, it's your creme brûlée and coffee all in one bottle.

1975 vintage

This remains an unusual dessert treat, as unctuous as one might imagine given that this is all 1971 vintage sherry. Dark chocolate brown in color, with full candied chocolate nose and earthy tones. the taste remains well balanced with alcohol and mild acidic reinforcement of the underlying chocolate fruit orange and smokey flavors. Not subtle but a nice treat every decade or so--and it will last that long.

1971 vintage

Friends, what do you think the end of the drinking window would be for the half bottle? Perhaps I should drink it now. The average drinking window of all vintages (1971 through 1985 have drinking windows specified) is 35 years, which would put it at 2006. The last time I drank this, also from the half bottle, was 2008. Your thoughts would be welcome. Thanks!

1971 vintage

Concentrated notes of raisins, figs and a big coffee finish, tempered nicely by a cleansing acidity giving a long warm finish. A 75cl bottle of this sure goes a long way!

1971 vintage

Beautiful thick pour with figs and prunes on the nose. Sticky and sweet but not overpowering. Am so glad we were able to finish the evening on a high note. If you can find this buy it as it continues to drink well.

1971 vintage

This wine has not changed in 10 years. Viscous, but with nice acidity giving it lift. Complex and long. Probably not as good as the '71, but excellent and should last forever.

1975 vintage

Are you kidding? Buy this. Drink it and enjoy it. It's very, very good.

1975 vintage

Extraordinary. Dark, dark, dark chocolate color. No flaws. No sediment. Major rim variation. Nose of dark candy. Paired perfectly with an assortment of chocolates. No tannin. No acid. Low alcohol. Long finish. Amazing how beautiful this is. Perfectly drinkable.

1982 vintage

Really smooth and very drinkable by all!!

1982 vintage

I like this better and better as years go by. This bottle had just incredible acidity that made the wine taste so fresh and light(!), though in reality the residual sugar in this is extremely high and the depth of flavor is that of wine concentrate. Consistently great wine, and a terrific bargain as well.

1971 vintage

Poured thicker than anything I've ever seen. Iodine and betadine on the edges leaked into a dark abyss. Very complex nose; fresh cracked egg whites, wax, hot undefined spices. Initially sherry, a mature strawberry, and then suddenly transforms into fresh blueberry hot cakes with maple syrup. Finish is 1 min plus. Fantastic.

1971 vintage

B-day Bash - Carlisle, BDX, Nemo and more (Danny Brown - Queens) : Ridiculous stuff. BTW better now than it was on release (it was a bit hot 8 years ago looking at my notes). Still looks and feels like motor oil :) Orange marmalade, figs toffee...great acidity keeping this "fresh" - as fresh as PX gets that is. (though i find Albala PX to be generally less "sticky" than many others. this isn't from Jerez - its Montilla) Look …

1971 vintage

Dark brownish red color; opaque. Aromas of blackberry, lots of caramel, fig, and cigar box. Similar flavors on the palate, with the addition of molasses. Highly viscous and chewy. Big, sweet and rich. A long sweet and caramel-like finish. I brought this to a Valentine's party and, not surprisingly, some liked it and others were neutral. Good as a dessert wine.

1971 vintage

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1975 vintage

nose; toffee, raisins, black liquorice, and toasted oats. palate; dutch chocolate, burnt molasses, heavy cream, and cola. full bodied and viscous. high acidity. long 60 plus second finish. dark, like midnight.

1982 vintage

Très très complexe... prunes, cassonnade, café... long, goûteux mais pas écoeurant, très solide!

1982 vintage

Tar, burnt sugar, butter and dried raisins. Simply wonderful in the mouth with nice acidity and long finish.

1982 vintage

nose; toffee, raisins, black liquorice, and toasted oats. palate; dutch chocolate, burnt molasses, heavy cream, and cola. full bodied and viscous. high acidity. long 60 plus second finish. dark, like midnight.

1982 vintage

nose; toffee, raisins, black liquorice, and toasted oats. palate; dutch chocolate, burnt molasses, heavy cream, and cola. full bodied and viscous. high acidity. long 60 plus second finish. dark, like midnight.

1982 vintage

Great wine in combination with great homemade chocolate cake. Beautiful brown colour, great nose with raisins and chocolate, taste liquid chocolate with long aftertaste. Bring me another one!

1982 vintage

Thick, viscous, dark like maple syrup. Notes of figs and dry fruits. Acidity is medium low. Alcohol is a bit high. Enjoyable but not quaffable.

1975 vintage

Wow! Can't believe this is an 82. Sweet, viscous, raisin, chocolate!! Paired with a chocolate breadpudding drizzled in chocolate sauce. Wonderful!!

1982 vintage

Great and very consistent, as usual.

1971 vintage

Super rich and decadent. Oozes of chocolate, raisins and sun burnt peaches. Great stuff!

1982 vintage

Liquid chocolate in a glass (but not over-sweet), it's incredible. Don't pair with anything, since it's dessert in itself.

1982 vintage

very well balance PX with fresh acidity

1975 vintage

Consistency of motor oil. Blackberry, fig, molasses, and licorice flavors. Very rich and sweet.

1971 vintage

nose; toffee, raisins, black liquorice, and toasted oats. palate; dutch chocolate, burnt molasses, heavy cream, and cola. full bodied and viscous. high acidity. long 60 plus second finish. dark, like midnight.

1982 vintage

Alcohol and raisins on the nose. Caramel, dried apricot, molasses, brown sugar. The alcohol is well integrated on the palate and almost unnoticeable. Extremely viscous. Still has some life in it as well although I don't see it getting better. 94+

1982 vintage

nose; toffee, raisins, black liquorice, and toasted oats. palate; dutch chocolate, burnt molasses, heavy cream, and cola. full bodied and viscous. high acidity. long 60 plus second finish. dark, like midnight. really great, I am buying more.

1982 vintage

Ripe raisins, mollasses, dark, rich, nothing like it; drank over 4 months and it did not seem to be affected.

1982 vintage

Deep brown colour with a fantastically syrup like consistency - taste of raisins and caramel. Perfect for accompanying Christmas pudding.

1971 vintage

Wines to Pair with Chocolate (Farpointe Cellar) : Creamy chocolate and licorice on the nose, with some cigar leaves and spice underneath. There's also some espresso and raisin at the end. Cocoa and coffee on the palate, with raisin and licorice on the mid-palate, and a great tobacco finish.

1982 vintage

Opaque, black mahogany color with a caramel-like bite... more like syrup than wine! Fino, Amontillado and Oloroso Montilla produced by the classic solera method

1982 vintage

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