Tasting the Palmas and Annadas Palo Cortados from Gonzalez Byass
During my trip to Jerez (see my previous story Τhe Land of Sherry with Tio Pepe Sherry Master) the ''mystery'' of Palo Cortado was discussed by master blender Antonio Flores and Ronan Sayburn MS at the Annadas (Vintage) Palo Cortado tasting.
Palo Cortado has no official winemaking protocol; the only condition is that it must be somewhere between an Amontillado and an Oloroso in terms of style, holding on to the aromatic refinement of the former and the structure and body of the latter. Compared to an Amontillado, it will often have spent less time under flor and its base must will have been really delicate. Another way of describing it would be as a kind of very delicate Oloroso.
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