Romate Solera Reserva Brandy de Jerez 36%

Description

Romate Solera Reserva is the entry point in the superb Brandy de Jerez range of Spanish brandies from Sanchez Romate.

Bodegas Sanchez Romate a high quality producer of both Sherry wines and Brandy de Jerez. The company was established by Juan Sánchez de la Torre in 1781 to produce fine wines. Over two hundred years later Sanchez Romate is one of the oldest bodegas in Spain and one of the remaining wineries in the Jerez Designation of Origin that remains under independent family ownership. A brandy was first produced in 1887 and it is the fabulous Cardenal Mendoza Solera Gran Reserva which has become the family’s flagship brand, although their Sherries follow closely behind!

Regulated under the strict auspices of the Consejo Regulador (the Brandy de Jerez regulatory body) and by the even stricter controls of the Sanchez Romate itself, the Cardenal Mendoza Brandy range surpasses the the minimum quality and ageing regulations with ease. Cardenal Mendoza is still made according to the unique traditions specific to Brandy de Jerez de la Frontera. The first stage in ageing Cardenal Mendoza brandy is to run the new spirit into special 250 litre American oak casks for two years of static ageing. It is then introduced to the dynamic ageing that makes Brandy de Jerez so unique the system of criaderas y soleras. For Mendoza this means 500 litre casks, which have previously been used for ageing Pedro Ximénez (PX) and old Oloroso wines. The spirit is then continuously blended though the solera process for many years, until it is drawn off for bottling. This is the same system of fractional ageing that is used for Sherry wines and can also be found in the production of Solera Rums.

Romate Solera Reserva is the youngest style of Brandy de Jerez produced by Bodegas Sanchez Romate. It is a solera brandy, made from distilled wine which is then aged through the solera cask system and then aged two and half years in American oak casks which means that it can be labelled as a Reserva.