Williams & Humbert Fino Carrascal 2017 500 ml

WILLIAMS & HUMBERT Fino en Rama CARRASCAL is a wine made by Paola Medina with the Palomino variety at the Jerezana Williams & Humbert winery. Unlike traditional Jerez wines, aged through the “Solera y Criaderas” system, these vintage wines are aged statically. For its production, musts that come from old vines of the Pagos de Carrascal are selected, which are fortified at 15º for biological aging, or at 18º for oxidative aging. These wines are monitored during their aging, in which no intervention is carried out until the moment of selection for bottling. Faced with the homogeneity provided by the Criaderas and Soleras System, in which wines of different ages are methodically blended, each of these wines are unique and special. Wines that are the reflection of the vintage of the year and its particular weather conditions, as well as the peculiar evolution of each one of them during their static aging. The Pagos vintages project began in 2017. After selecting Pago de Carrascal grapes, the yolk must obtained ferments at a controlled temperature. After the subsequent decantation of the lees, it is fortified at 15.5º and its biological aging period begins in old casks, developing the flower veil naturally. From the set made up of 14 vessels, a special extraction has been made of a selection of casks number 14 and number 17, in which the exceptional fineness, structure, volume and minerality characteristic of Pago de Carrascal stand out. 140 years contemplate the history of Williams & Humbert, owned by the Medina family, Paola Medina is the visible head of the elaborations and the one who has placed the wines of the winery at high levels of quality within the Marco de Jerez. A specialist in static aging and vintage wines, Paola leads the Sherry Revolution, which along with other young winemakers and oenologists from the area, have breathed an air of modernity into the denomination.