We've created a brand new category for our fans and members: The Crossover Collection. Our aim is provide yet another gateway into experiencing the gift of sherry.

Some of you have said 6 bottles per trimester is NOT ENOUGH, while others may just want to dip their toes in. This collections is geared towards the curious minds and noses out there who may not want to commit to 6 bottles at once, who want to explore the world of sherry in an accessible and affordable way.

It's also meant for those of you who need a little extra! Send one to your mom!

Every CROSSOVER COLLECTION 3 BOTTLE PACK will focus on dry sherries, and will include the following:

  1. FINO or MANZANILLA - A Biologically Aged wine - a wine that is always aged beneath a veil of "flor" (yeast) in the solera system.

  2. OLOROSO - An Oxidatively aged wine - a wine that is aged without the protection of the veil of flor.

  3. AMONTILLADO - A sherry that lives two lives - part of its life beneath the veil of flor, biologically aged, and part of it's life without the protection of yeast, oxidatively aged.

Our hope is to show the evolution of how these wines age - that all start pretty much the same! As white wine!

SHERRY IS WINE!

FALL 2021 CROSSOVER COLLECTION SELECTIONS

1) FINO - La Ina (750mL)

(From the Importer, Elevation Wine Partners)In 1906, a group of hare hunters in Jerez tasted their first sherry on the spot of an 8th Century Moorish battle, on the southern bank of the Guatalete river. The battle was remembered as the battle of ‘La Ina’ after the war cry of the Moorish: “A’Hina”. This historic event also gave its name to the delicious bone-dry sherry: Fino La Ina. In 1919 Juan P. de Domecq, member of the Domecq wine family, names their most famous Fino after the lands where he usually went hunting, (fun fact: Fino was the style of wine generally consumed during hunting).
The La Ina solera was acquired by the Caballero Group in 2008, through its flagship quality sherry company, Bodegas Lustau, one of the most prestigious sherry houses in the ‘sherry triangle’. The agreement included the purchase of all 4,200 ‘botas’ of the soleras, alongside six other bodegas, and while Lustau moved most of the Domecq soleras to their own premises, the La Ina solera still resides in its historic La Mezquita bodega, in order to preserve its unique and precious terroir.

100% Palomino Fino planted on ‘Alabriza’ soil. Aged under 'flor' for an average 5-6 years, in old American oak casks, at the original Bodegas La Mezquita.

2) AMONTILLADO - Bodegas Gutiérrez Y Colosía (750mL)

(From the Importer, Coeur Wine Co.) Since 1838, Gutierrez Colosia has been situated in the mouth of the river Guadalete in the town of El Puerto de Santa Maria. The quality of the Gutiérrez Colosía wines is guaranteed by careful ageing through a process known as “criaderas y soleras”, following the region’s tradition. The Gutiérrez Colosía wines are produced in “bodegas”, or wine cellars, with an architectural style known as “Nave Cathedral” or cathedral like warehouse. These are buildings of significant height and numerous arcs which allow for a better exposure of the wines to the influence of the special climate of the Region. The Gutiérrez Colosía Bodegas are heirs to a long viticulture and wine producing tradition. Their first Bodega was built in 1838 and it has been preserved almost as such to this day. After different ownership, it was acquired by Mr. José Gutiérrez Dosal in the 1920s, the late great grandfather of this last generation of the Gutiérrez Colosía family. In 1969, the Gutiérrez Colosía family bought the ruins of the Palace of the Count of Cumbrehermosa -Cargador de Indias, which also included a wine cellar. Upon these ruins two additional cellars were built. In 1997, Gutierrez Colosia made the transition from almacenista to bottling their own sherries.

This is an old wine that has the particularity of having both aging processes (biological and oxidative). Aged for at least 8-9 years in solera (it spends three years as a Fino before losing its flor and then undergoes oxidation process for at least five years)

3) OLOROSO - Bodegas Rey Fernando De Castilla, Antique Oloroso (500mL)

One of the most exceptional of the small, independent sherry houses, Rey Fernando de Castilla was revitalized in 1999 by Jan Pettersen, a Norwegian with a passion for top quality sherry and 15 years experience at Osborne. After taking over the cellars of the Sherry shipper José Bustamante, located next door to the main facilities of Fernando de Castilla, Jan quickly established this winery as masters of the production and ageing of fine, unblended, untreated Sherries. The bodega’s reputation is based on the excellence of the Antique range of intensely pure and complex single solera Sherries that undergo extended ageing times in the cellar (the Antique PX is a 30 year old system, while the Fino is 8 years) lending to their complexity and depth.

The vineyards and winery are located in Jerez, and all Sherries are estate bottled. There are never any pesticides or herbicides used in the vineyards.

From a 20+ year-old solera system, this is a richly complex Oloroso that is unfined, and not cold stabilized in order to preserve its purity. All of the Antique wines are bottled once per year.