Valdespino Inocente Single Vineyard Fino Dry Sherry

[Though not the same bottling as reviewed here, this edition of the Inocente will reflect similar character and ageability. Enjoy over the next 3-5 years.] As with many other wines from the José Estévez group, there is a special bottling of Valdespino’s flagship NV Fino Inocente in magnum, but in this case they have kept the bottles for six months as the wine is from the saca otoño 2016, the autumn bottling from 2016. So the wine is offered with some extra bottle age. It has all that you expect from Inocente, a long aging wine fermented in bota from grapes grown exclusively in the Macharnudo Alto vineyard and bottled with an average age of ten years. All the textbook aromas and flavors are there, coupled with the elegance and mineral intensity the Macharnudo white chalky soils provide. Customers who purchase one of this scarce magnums probably know Inocente already. This will have a longer development in bottle. Drink date: 2017-2022. Score – 94+. (Luis Gutiérrez, robertparker.com, Dec. 29, 2017)