LA PANESA Fino Emilio Hidalgo 75 cl
A wine suitable for any occasion. Great pairing with seafood and fish dishes.
Serving temperature: 5/7ºC
Nose: highly complex. It goes all the way from a warm, honeyed apple note to the smell of a stable. In between are dozens of tiny aromas: banana peel, yeast, polished oak, salty seawater, lime, aged cheese, toasted wood and dried mushrooms. Even hints of motor oil. Quite exquisite really.
Mouth: medium-bodied and fairly glyceric. It shows a remarkable peppery heat and concentration. An olive brine bitterness, some toasted notes and salty almonds. Lemon zest. After the initial attack though, there’s a lack of acidity and an additional nuttiness which make it feel smooth and slightly thin. This also results in a rather short finish with some oaky notes.
Robert Parker 95
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It is produced by Bodegas Emilio Hildago in Jerez de la Frontera – not to be mistaken for Hidalgo – La Gitana in Sanlúcar. The solera that holds La Panesa was laid down in 1961 to celebrate the birth of Alfonso Rodriguez, the first nephew of the Hidalgo brothers. It’s a very selective solera: only the best barrels from Hidalgo’s basic Fino solera are taken out and are then fed into the seven special criaderas that make Fino Panesa.
This wine is almost 15 years old on average and most wines would have turned into Amontillado by that time. It takes a lot of temperature and humidity monitoring to keep the flor alive for such an extensive period. In fact Hidalgo says they can only make this happen in the most humid parts of the bodega.
While it’s not explicitly bottled ‘en rama’, it is known that this wine undergoes only the most essential filtering.
Type: Fortified
Winery; Emilio Hidalgo, Andalucía, Spain
Aging: Crianza > 15 years
Grape: Palomino Fino
Consumption: 2024 - 2031
Appellation: Jerez-Sherry