Equipo Navazos

Jamie Goode, www.wineanorak.com: "Equipo Navazos make mindblowing Sherries. I’m drinking one at the moment, and it’s a life-enhancing experience."

Jancis Robinson, Sherry as Montrachet – revelations. www.jancisrobinson.com: "They are not cheap. But then nor is Grand Cru burgundy."

Equipo Navazos selects specific butts of special finesse and complexity from some of the most prestigious bodegas in the Sherry and Montilla regions. These are bottled almost privately for a group of wine lovers. The selections made by Equipo Navazos belong without any doubt among the greatest wines of the world.

It all began in December of 2005 during a visit to a small and antique bodega in Sanlúcar, when these Sherry lovers "discovered" several dozen butts o fan exceptionally fine old amontillado that had spent twenty years without running, unsold. They selected the equivalent volume of a butt and bottled it privately under a brand name that evokes Edgar A. Poe's popular story "The Cask of Amontillado": La Bota de Amontillado NAVAZOS. These scarce 600 bottles triggered the hunting activities of Equipo Navazos ('Navazos Team'). Another two selections, still exclusively intended for private circulation, would appear along 2006. The results aroused great enthusiasm among this reduced circle of partners, and limited releases of later selections appeared in the market through several important distributors that had participated in the venture from the beginning.
The wines are bottled in limited series, in successive numbered editions of dated releases (the date of each saca or withdrawal has been precisely stated on the label) so that aficionados can deliberately compare different editions of the same solera if they so desire. This also enables a precise following of their evolution, since—like all great wines—these are expected to evolve during their bottle life. The first editions were made available exclusively within a private circle, so, should you find any one around by chance, its origin will be invariably the reduced quota of one in the thirty or so private “partners” whose support and enthusiasm have made this project possible.

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