Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20230828 A grower-Champagne for people who

A grower-Champagne for people who prefer texture over fizz

and cardamom

a light delight

) The village bottling pulls from parcels around Gevrey and ages in around 20 percent new oak

The gentian carries the bitterness

Valdespino Oloroso Viejo Sherry Don Gonzalo VOS (500ml) CS20230828 A grower-Champagne for people whoIt smells like walnuts, toffee and old leather, and then it finishes bone dry. That contradiction is the whole point of oloroso, and Don Gonzalo is one of the great ones. Valdespino is among the oldest houses in Jerez, and this is their old guard oloroso: palomino, fortified, then aged in a solera with no flor covering it, so decades of slow contact with air do all the work. The VOS designation is a certification rather than marketing copy, meaning