Primitivo Collantes "Arroyuelo" Fino en Rama Sanlúcar de Barrameda Jerez

375ml bottle

15% abv

Vineyards: All fruit is from estate owned and farmed vineyards. This is from the Matalián Vineyard.

Farming: Organic

Winemaking: Native yeast fermentation in stainless steel. Fortified to 15% ABV. Aged 5 years in the traditional system of criaderas and soleras. Cask selection, bottled on request with no fining, filtering or treatments of any kind.

The Arroyuelo Fino en Rama is the perfect foil to the Ceballos Fino. Where the Ceballos is easy going and chill, the Arroyuelo is full throttle and wild - for a Fino. It spends 5 years in solera, is drawn to order from the best barrels, and bottled with no treatments at all. It is dense, complex, very salty and very long on the finish. There is almost an oloroso-like echo on the finish - that walnut skin tannin thing. It is basically a reserve level fino and it drinks every bit like one.