Alvear Pedro Ximinez de Anada - 2004 (375ml) Size:375ml released as Batch 001

released as Batch 001

Jut that hint of cinnamon and citrus rind tie it all together

Chewy and dense

with white pepper and alder notes framing a core of racy red currant

but the tannins need another few years in bottle to soften further

Alvear Pedro Ximinez de Anada - 2004 (375ml) Size:375ml released as Batch 001Alvears 2011 Pedro Ximenez de Anada is the most amazing Pedro Ximenez I have ever tasted. It may also be one of the first to be vintage dated. The grapes were hand harvested in September, then allowed to dry in the sunshine until they began fermentation, which is ultimately arrested by the addition of spirits. The wine spent six months in large American oak prior to being bottled. It is an amazing effort that looks like molasses. Notes of macerated