Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) 050326OFFER Foti and a thrill to drink

and a thrill to drink

tiny production brandies themselves

This will cellar beautifully for the next 5-10 years

Taittinger's house style leans on Chardonnay -- the Brut Reserve is roughly 40% of it

and aged in both bourbon and Sherry casks for more than eight years

Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) 050326OFFER Foti and a thrill to drinkIt 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