González Byass Amontillado Cuatro Palmas

A wine they no longer call Fino, the NV Amontillado Cuatro Palmas is a superb example of an old Amontillado, with the pungent and saline notes of the biological aging under flor with intense aromas of low tide, dry seaweed, rusty nails and oyster shell coupled with volatile notes and hints of hazelnuts and varnish. The wine has a sharp palate with pungent flavors, very long and tasty, tickling you taste buds with salty sensations and iodine flavors that made me think of a seaport in winter. This is 21.5% alcohol and has eight grams of acidity (tartaric). Even the sugar has been concentrated by time, and this has 5.9 grams, even though the wine feels bone dry, as the alcohol and acidity compensate the sugar. The literature says this wine averages 53 years of age. Only 334 half-liter bottles were filled in October 2010.