White Wine
Spain
About This Wine...
The House
One of the most exceptional of the small, independent sherry houses, Fernando de Castilla was revitalised in 1999 by Jan Pettersen, a Norwegian gone native with a passion for top quality sherry with 15 years experience at Osborne. After taking over the cellars of the Sherry shipper Jose Bustamante, located next door to the main facilities of Fernando de Castilla, Jan quickly established Fernando de Castilla 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 whose award winning packaging makes them even more impressive. The Antique Palo Cortado was awarded trophies for ‘Best of Show’ and ‘Best Dry Sherry’ at the 2009 New Wave Spanish Wine Awards, whilst the Antique Amontillado scooped the trophy for ‘Dry Sherry over £10’ and the 2009 Decanter World Wine Awards.
Winery
Fernando de Castilla deals only in prestigious, premium wines. The sherries are all from individual soleras. They are bottled without blending, cold stabilization or filtration of any kind in order to preserve the subtlety, purity anddistinctive aromas of these premium wines. The products are all bottled in clear glass to show off the wonderful colour of the wines. Fernando De Castilla Antique Oloroso has been aged for 20 years.
NV: Sommelier Wine Awards 2009 – Critics Choice and Gold List (Fernando de Castilla took 2 out of the 4 Golds forfortifieds in the Sommelier Wine Awards 2009)
NV: Sommelier Wine Awards 2008 – Critics Choice and Gold List
NV: New Wave Spanish Wine Awards 2008 – ‘Top 124’ wines
NV: IWC 2008 – Silver and Best Sherry Trophy
NV: New Wave Spanish Wine Awards 2007 – ‘Top 106’ wines
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