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This is a solera system wine with components going back into the late 19th century. For me, PX can be a bit over the top, but this has a more elegant, fresher style as noted below. A complete revelation when I tasted it recently.
"For long the dark, treacly, wood-matured wines of Scholtz Hermanos were the sole exported representatives from this historic appellation, but that bodega has now disappeared".
Jancis Robinson
".....I was at a tasting and a Spanish dessert wine was called for, so I opened my very last bottle of what I understood to be Scholtz Hermanos’s greatest wine:
I cannot find anything out about this great winery as it no longer exists and when it did information was less easy to come by than today, but everything I have ever tried from them was superb and it seems they made over 30 different Málagas. I remember buying this bottle in Spain when I was 18, so I have had it for nearly thirty years. It is likely that the wine is mainly, if not all Pedro Ximén – it certainly has the figgy, raisiny, molasses nose and flavour of PX, but a certain freshness and elegance could be a pointer towards some Moscatel too, or as this was their top wine it might just not have any vino de color or very much arrope? Long ageing has made the wine perfectly integrated and it was utterly, utterly delicious with an array of cheeses, even smoked, and worked well with a rich chocolate tart too. Indeed it had a delicate chocolatey character, especially on the amazingly long finish, which showed none of its 18% alcohol, but was graceful and refined. It was also sweet without being sickly, I love rich PX wines from Montilla and Sherry, but this was lighter and fresher than those – another pointer towards not being pure PX, or just a very refined and elegant example?"
Quentin Sadler November 2011 www.catavino.net
A clue to when this was bottled is a neck label that says it won a Bronze medal at Vinexpo in 1985. I have no idea how to price it (but winesearcher may help) so sold without reserve.
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