{"id":5292,"date":"2012-07-12T16:21:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:21:58","slug":"three-lovely-palo-cortado-sherries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/three-lovely-palo-cortado-sherries","title":{"rendered":"Three lovely Palo Cortado sherries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/palocortado1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5300\" title=\"palocortado\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/palocortado1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/palocortado1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/palocortado1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/palocortado1-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/palocortado1-400x246.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sherry gives me a lot of pleasure. Here are three Palo Cortados that I&#8217;ve had open for a while. I did a contemplative comparative tasting of them. All quite different, but all thoroughly lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Cortado starts life as a fino, but then the flor dies. It&#8217;s fortified up to a higher strength (18%, typically) and then aged oxidatively. Amontillado also starts life as a fino and then is fortified to a higher strength; the difference is that with Palo Cortado, the flor dies of its own accord. Palo Cortado is a sherry sweet spot for me: they always seem to deliver.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bodegas Tradicion 30 Years VORS Palo Cortado<\/strong><br \/>\nDeep bronze colour. Amazingly tangy nose with complex lifted old furniture notes. The palate has concentrated citrus peel flavours with old casks and almonds. Great acidity. Complex, fresh, savoury and mind-blowing. 96\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emilio Hidalgo Marques de Rodil Especial Palo Cortado<\/strong><br \/>\nSealed with a high-quality driven natural cork. I wish more sherries were sealed this way. Complex, smooth, nutty citrus peel nose. Mellow and elegant with some salty, tangy notes. Lovely texture: supple and balanced. Not so much about\u00a0power, but really elegant. 94\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harveys\u00a030 Years VORS Palo Cortado<\/strong><br \/>\nBrown\/bronze colour. Rich and powerful with notes of spice and treacle, nuts and old casks. The palate is rich, concentrated and tangy with powerful flavours of nuts, citrus peel, tar, treacle and lanolin. Real flavour impact here: not elegant, but delicious. 94\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry gives me a lot of pleasure. Here are three Palo Cortados that I&#8217;ve had open for a while. I did a contemplative comparative tasting of them. All quite different,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,40],"tags":[373,371],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sherry","category-spain","tag-sherry","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}