Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) 0426JACKSON shimmering

shimmering

honey (up to 5% of the sweetener

From Regiis Ova: Our Golden Ossetra with its complex nutty flavor

with the Bay of Biscay looming directly below

and this amaro was the first bottle they made

Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) 0426JACKSON shimmeringIt smells like walnuts, toffee and old leather, and then it finishes bone dry. That contradiction is the whole point of oloroso, and Don Gonzalo is one of the great ones. Valdespino is among the oldest houses in Jerez, and this is their old guard oloroso: palomino, fortified, then aged in a solera with no flor covering it, so decades of slow contact with air do all the work. The VOS designation is a certification rather than marketing copy, meaning