Toro Albalá Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Años - 50 cl.
HK$ 283.59
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The November 2024 bottling of the NV Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Años, which now has the bottling date printed on the back label, displays a bright amber color and a shy nose with subtle aromas of nuts and peach. It has 18.5% alcohol and was fortified 1% or so (from 15% natural alcohol to 16%), the rest is natural from concentration and evaporation. It has a velvety and warm palate, gentle and dry, with some lightness. 14,000 half-liter bottles were filled in November 2024.
Features
Type of wine
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Size
Appellation
Alcohol
18.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 12ºC and 14ºC
Winemaking
Aged for 15 years in oxidative ageing using criaderas and solera.
Description
In Aguilar de la Frontera, where the Cordoban sun ripens the Pedro Ximénez grapes to the point of the impossible, Toro Albalá learnt decades ago that patience can also be a style. The Poley range, heir to the historic Marqués de Poley, stems from this idea: letting time do its work without embellishing the result. The “bold decision” here was to bottle the wine ‘en rama’ — with minimal intervention, without unnecessary polishing — and, furthermore, to include the bottling date on the back label, as if signing a gesture of transparency. The origin is D.O.P. Montilla Moriles, with its albariza soils and a climate of contrasts: heat and dryness that concentrate the wine, and cellars that refine it through silence and natural evaporation. This is, in essence, Toro Albalá Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Years: tradition without embellishment, precision and truth.
Production
Toro Albalá Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Years is made exclusively from Pedro Ximénez grapes and aged oxidatively in the traditional criaderas and solera system for an average of 15 years, with the old American oak playing a leading role, serving as a framework rather than a mask. The aforementioned bottling (November 2024) filled some 14,000 50 cl bottles: a relatively small volume for a wine with such internal complexity.
Taste
Toro Albalá Poley Oloroso en Rama Solera 15 Years displays a brilliant mahogany colour with hints of old gold and slow tears: it already signals that ‘dry’ density reigns here. On the nose, it does not shout; it whispers at first: antique furniture, toffee, fine vanilla, faint smoke. Then the array of nuts (walnut, caramelised hazelnut), orange peel and ripe fruit in the background opens up, all against a backdrop of dry leaves and blond tobacco.
On the palate, it is velvety and warm, yet always very dry: the wood transforms into an elegant bitterness that lingers, and that salinity emerges, making you salivate and return to the glass. Persistent, clean, with a surprising intensity for an Oloroso: more scalpel than sledgehammer. Ideal as a fortified wine for contemplation, and magnificent with mature cheeses, mushrooms, dark stews and umami-rich dishes.
Shipping to Hong Kong
Estimated transit time: 3 working days.
| Bottles | Price | Complete box |
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| 1-5 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 6 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 7-11 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 12 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 13-17 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 18 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 19-23 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 24 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 25-29 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 30 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 31-35 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 36 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 37-41 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 42 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 43-47 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 48 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 49-53 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 54 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 55-59 bottles | HK$ 136.91 | 60 bottles, Free shipping! |
