LUSTAU
Region - Spain
In 1896, José Ruiz-Berdejo started cultivating the vines of the family’s estate, Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza. He was a stock keeper so, the wines he made went to larger sherry producers and exporting bodegas. In 1931, his daughter, María Ruiz-Berdejo Alberti, acquired a small winery and moved production there. In 1954, her husband Emilio stopped being a stockkeeper and began to sell and export their own sherry.
The collection of Lustau wines developed properly in the 80s — they started aging some, decided on the signature bottle shape, and started creating new expressions.
In 1990, Lustau merged with a Spanish family-owned Luis Caballero, themselves with a history of producing Ponche (a digestif liqueur). Together they started producing quality wines, sherries, and vermouth, which are aged in six cathedral-like bodegas, with tall windows, high ceilings, and sand floors.
Today, Lustau is considered one of the finest sherry producers in the world. They are the only producers making wines in all the cities in the ‘sherry triangle’: Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María and Sanlúcar de Barrameda. The collection includes biologically aged sherries, cream sherries, amontillados and the Almacenista collection — sherries from small, independent bodegas.
LUSTAU DELUXE CREAM CAPATAZ ANDRÉS SHERRY
20% ABV — 750 ml
This sherry is a tribute to Capataz Andrés Pérez, Lustau’s Cellar Master in the 60s.
The cream sherry is a blend of Oloroso from the Palomino Fino grape (85%), and Pedro Ximenez (15%), which are aged individually in their own solera in Jerez de la Frontera. The aging process is like the one used in the 17th century to carry wines to distant colonies. After aging separately, they undergo a second aging process together in a solera of 45 barrels at the Sacristía de Bodegas Lustau, whose climatic conditions mimic what the wines would have experienced on their journeys.
The sherry picked up a silver at the International Wine and Spirits Competition 2019.
Enjoy it chilled, on the rocks with an orange slice. A dessert wine, it can be had with sweets, as a digestif, or on its own.
Tasting Notes: On the nose, there are dry almonds, raisins, vanilla, and coffee. Ripe fruit, rich and sweet, raisins and candied orange linger smoothly on the palate. The toasty notes are laced with acidity. The richness carries on to a sweet finish.
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