Hidalgo Napoleon Amontillado Sherry Wine - (500ml) NV Washington

Hidalgo Napoleon Amontillado Sherry Wine - (500ml) NV WashingtonThe Hidalgo La Gitana Napoleon Amontillado is 100% Palomino Fino that has aged for between 6 and 20 years in the Bodega's solera in Sanlcar de Barrameda. It is named Napoleon because during the Peninsula War of 1807 1814 Hidalgo sold wine to Napoleon's French Army (though at the same time it also sold wine to the Duke of Wellington's army). Deep amber color with aromas and flavors of dried fruit, nuts, spice, honey and a slight saline mineral tinge.

sweet red-toned fruit

Caressing in feel and seductive through the sneaky long finish

intense and deep

Fresh fruit with hints of pear and peaches fill the air with this light color organic white wine

to cherries

It's more immediate than the more muscular

grape bunches are selected

which it would not do at 13

Shows modest toast on the finish

this has the vinous red-fruit character and seashell minerality of a Marsannay

This is a juicy wine that has attractive fruitiness as well as a dry structure

Deep juiciness underpins it all and underlines both elegance and unforced balance