PM Spirits Sherry
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. The spirit nerds at PM Spirits have bottled some Sherry. Why? Because we like Sherry too.
We're fortunate to be friends with some of the most respected folks in the Sherry industry, and during our travels to Jerez for work on the Navazos Palazzi brand, we would constantly be drinking some of the most incredible Sherry. We thought – why not blend and bottle some of these extraordinary casks and bring them back to the US? So that's what we did.
Eduardo Ojeda
With the expert help of our dear friend Eduardo Ojeda – chief winemaker at Valdespino and La Guita for decades, co-owner of cult sherry bottlers Equipo Navazos, and senior advisor to Grupo Estévez, perhaps the most revered Sherry bodega in Spain –we have bottled four expressions of the finest fortified wine that Jerez has to offer.
BASICS + KEY DEFINITIONS
Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes grown in the Jerez region of Spain.
The main grape used is Palomino, accounting for over 98% of vine plantings. Others include Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel.
It is produced in a range of styles from bone-dry Fino to nutty Oloroso to sweet PX.
There are two main categories of dry sherry – biologically aged, which ages under a layer of yeast called flor, and oxidatively aged, which ages without flor and interacts with oxygen.
Most Sherry ages in a solera system, which is a method of fractional blending using groups of barrels called criaderas. A solera produces wines that are a continuous blend of vintages.
Sherry maturation is done in bodegas. These are buildings specifically designed with the aging process in mind.
Sherry expressions
PM SPIRITS PROJECT FINO SHERRY
This first saca comes from a Fino solera that has aged in a bodega in ElPuerto de Santa María. It has spent the entirety its time aging beneatha veil of flor. Typically used for blending purposes, this remarkablesolera has never previously been bottled on its own.
Saca de Junio de 2021
Average age: five years
ABV: 15%
Format: 6/750ml
PM SPIRITS PROJECT AMONTILLADO SHERRY
This Amontillado Sherry is a blend of several casks from criaderashoused at a highly respected bodega with roots in the late 1800s. Thewine is selected for its finesse after fermentation, is fortified to 15%abv, and then ages under flor for 8-10 years. The wine then loses itsflor and ages several more years oxidatively.
Saca de Junio de 2021
Average age: fifteen years
ABV: 17%
Format: 6/750ml
PM SPIRITS PROJECT PALO CORTADO SHERRY
A blend of several casks from intermediate criaderas, this wine wasoriginally intended to become a Fino. After a short time aging underflor, however, the veil of yeast died and this Sherry aged a furtherdecade-plus oxidatively.
Saca de Junio de 2021
Average age: fifteen years
ABV: 17.5%
Format: 6/750ml
PM SPIRITS PROJECT OLOROSO SHERRY
Wines destined to become Oloroso Sherry are selected for fullness of body and structure. Initially fortified to 17% abv to prevent formation of flor, this wine is a blend of several casks from notable criaderas and spent the entirety of its aging exposed to oxygen.
Saca de Junio de 2021
Average age: eighteen years
ABV: 19%
Format: 6/750ml
PACKING INFO
PM Spirits Palo Cortado Sherry
Bottle Size: 750ml
Number of bottles per case: 6 bottles
Weight of a case: 7.44kg, 16.4lbs
BAR CODE: 856 980 005 685
PM Spirits Fino Sherry
Bottle Size: 750ml
Number of bottles per case: 6 bottles
Weight of a case: 7.44kg, 16.4lbs
BAR CODE: 856 980 005 661
PM Spirits Oloroso Sherry
Bottle Size: 750ml
Number of bottles per case: 6 bottles
Weight of a case: 7.44kg, 16.4lbs
BAR CODE: 856 980 005 692
PM Spirits Amontillado Sherry
Bottle Size: 750ml
Number of bottles per case: 6 bottles
Weight of a case: 7.44kg, 16.4lbs
BAR CODE: 856 980 005 678