Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20230828 The gentian carries the bitterness

The gentian carries the bitterness

Casa Noble Reposado Tequila is aged for 364 days in new French oak barrels

A grower-Champagne for people who prefer texture over fizz

or maybe an orange wine

this is classic Riesling with unrivaled aging potential

Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20230828 The gentian carries the bitternessIt 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