Equipo Navazos "La Bota 117" Amontillado, Montilla-Moriles, Spain

FROM EQUIPO NAVAZOS:

THE SHERRY: La Bota de Amontillado 117 “Navazos” is, by style and breed, the natural continuation of an exciting series of amontillados that constitute, like few other wines, the backbone of the adventure that we began in 2005 under the name of Equipo Navazos. From the mythical number 1 with which the journey began, passing through those numbered 9, 37, 58 and 95, to all of whom we have lent the last name “Navazos” because they represent the ideal balance between complexity and freshness that in our opinion makes amontillado the king of wines. This time we have moved from Sanlúcar to Montilla, looking for something new and because we had to take advantage of the opportunity of a spectacularly fine and lively amontillado, delicious, fluid and at the same time with a lot of character. It is a wine of more than 20 years of average age from Altos de Moriles, first aged for a long time as a fino and during its first oxidative stage in a prestigious winery in Lucena, which was followed by a definitive stage for fining in Pérez Barquero. It has never been fortified and its alcohol content is limited, below 18%, which contributes to its freshness on the palate.

THE PRODUCER: Through the wines bottled in the series “La Bota”, EQUIPO NAVAZOS give wine lovers from all around the world the chance of accesssing to a range of complex, fine and authentic traditional wines that legitimately belong among the greatest wines of the world. These wines come from soleras and individual casks that remain, relatively neglected by the market in the last few decades, in the bodegas of some of the most prestigious andalusian producers. Some of them are unexpected but fortunate findings, testimony of the anonymous work of generations of wine men and wine women, others are the result of a long-standing collaboration between EQUIPO NAVAZOS and some winemakers in Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Montilla and El Puerto de Santa María, with whom we are honored to work together. Beyond the series “La Bota”, EQUIPO NAVAZOS also work together with some producers and winemakers, not only from Andalusia but also from other regions in and abroad Spain, in the making of singular wines (and a couple brandies), always with an obsession for authenticity and personality: Casa del Inca, Navazos-Niepoort, I Think, Colet-Navazos, OVNI, Navazos-Palazzi are some of these products. By means of these initiatives, our main goal is to personally enjoy drinking our favorite wines, and hopefully make other wine lovers enjoy them as much as we do. No much more or less than this, however we are aware that it will always be quite a challenge.