Gran Barquero | Pedro Ximénez | Montilla NV

PV Tasting Notes

A step up from the younger styled Cosecha, brown amber in colour, and aged for a minimum of five years, with aromas of baked orange peel and soft caramel, it is thick and rich on the palate and very long.

Delicious for desserts to accompany blue cheeses, concentrated chocolate, red fruits (strawberry in particular) and simply poured over vanilla ice cream. Examples being;
- Sticky Toffee pudding with vanilla ice-cream
- Dark chocolate and pecan tart
- White chocolate ice-cream on a honeycomb biscuit
- Cherry and almond Clafoutis
- Milk chocolate and mascarpone cheesecake
- Iced honeycomb parfait
- Buttermilk pudding, macerated berries
- Plum tarte fine
- Crème brulee
- Chocolate and raspberry mousse
- Blackberry cranachan
- Cherry clafoutis
- White chocolate ice cream
- Chocolate moose
- Mini chocolate tart
 

Perez Barquero have achieved three of the top eight ratings including the top two ever awarded for Sherry wines, as such their products are in the top echelon of wines of this type.

Montilla wines resemble sherry wines, but they have their own character and separate denomination de Origin. They are products of Cordoba and grown in the great carpet of vineyards stitched with olive and almond trees, which stretches around the ancient city of Cordoba 250 miles north of Jerez and about 125 miles from Servile. This ancient Province has a long history of conquest by Phoenicians, Romans, Moors and the Spanish Kings, it is also described as the frying pan of Spain. The principle grape here is Pedro Ximenez, (PX as it is known in Jerez, where it makes only sweet wines) but in Montilla where it ripens early and are harvested early, with high sugar content which is fermented into alcohol, with the result of bone dry fino@s of around 16% and Oloroso or Amontillado at 19% to 21% without fortification.