Bodegas Tradicion Pedro Ximenez VOS

This sensual sweet wine results from selected, sun-dried white PX grapes. It is aged in the traditional Solera system for decades in seasoned oak barrels, after which it becomes unctuous and velvety, with lovely balancing acidity. Served chilled, it is divine with chocolate everything, vanilla ice cream, or aged blue cheese. This pure wine is not blended, carmelized, fined or chill-filtered. There's a new bottling of the very sweet and old NV Pedro Ximénez VORS, a wine estimated to be around 40 years of average age, which displays a dark mahogany color, almost black and opaque, with bright yellow around the edges. It has a note of hard licorice, graphite, melted asphalt, carob beans, Christmas cake and concentrated molasses. The palate is thick, oily and dense like (used) motor oil, pungent and sweet but with a bittersweet twist, like Belgian chocolate, in the finish.. Supremely thick, with a syrupy feel to the buckwheat, toasted brown bread, warm date and molten chocolate notes. Not tiring or top-heavy, this offers singed walnut, almond, fig paste and Turkish coffee details that impart energy through the finish.