Winery: Bodegas Tradición

Country / Region: Spain, Sherry, Jerez

Date Winery was established: 1650

Grape Variety: Palomino Fino

Alcohol Content / Volume: 19.5% / 750ml

First Vintage Released: NV

Ratings: 96 pts Wine & Spirits, 96 pts. Robert Parker

Decanting Time: It is not necessary to decant however we recommend to pour into the glass and leave for few minutes before drinking so the wine can breath and show its potential in aromas and taste. Once the bottle is opened, the wine will last in perfect condition for several weeks as long as it gets properly stored. Preferably to keep the wine in a dry cool place and with the bottle still standing up. That's why all Tradition wines come with a t-stopper.

Good to know: Palo Cortado is a very special wine... elegancy and uniqueness which comes from certain Jerez wines with a particular elaboration. Their fermentation and ageing in oak barrels will be crucial for their atypical characteristics developed. And the most important, you can predict the amount... it may work or not... Its very elegant in the nose and full in the mouth. Palo Cortado Tradición VORS is probably the most subtle, delicate wine made by the winery. After losing the flor, it finishes its contact with the oxygen. With an average of 40 years of age, it is the lightest and youngest of Tradicion dry sherry wines.

Tradicion Palo Cortado is bottled “en rama” (like all Tradicion wines and brandy) which means that the wine is not manipulated or treated before bottling.

The original company was founded in 1650, which hold the oldest of the sherry brands known to date. Tradicion is the newest wine project within the family after 11 generations. Focusing on very old sherry, not-chill filtered, not blended, not stabilized, not clarified, unsweetened, and with no addition of sulfates was a very unique and adventurous strategy indeed. Tradicion search for the purest style of classic sherry and aim to produce outstanding wines certified with more than thirty years of age or V.O.R.S. (Very Old Rare Sherry) or more than twenty years of age or V.O.S (Very Old Sherry).