The aroma is full of nuts, raisins and Crème Brûlée. The taste is creamy and elegant with a slight sweetness.
Serving suggestion:
Slightly sweet desserts, Aged cheeses, Apéritif
For centuries, when sailing ships crossed the great oceans, casks of sherry were lashed to ships sailing to India. Of course, you couldn’t do without sherry in the finer circles in the colonies to the east. However, it turned out that over the long journey the sherry developed an extraordinary complexity and softness that was most welcome. Lustau has revived this sherry style and you can buy it right here. Each wine (Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez) matures separately in its own solera for 12 years. Once blended, the resulting sherry is returned to casks for a further three years of aging.
B.T.
By Tim Vollerslev
Delicious, bold, creamy sherry, nice, long, complex taste of ripe raisin sweetness, some figs, nuts, spices and some mocha.
Jyllands-Posten
By Anders Halskov
Delicious nose of tart apples and figs. Nice and relatively light mouthfeel with notes of powdered sugar and dark caramel. Nice glass for the Christmas cookies.
Taste wine
By Jesper Bo Bendtsen
If you choose caramel sauce for the rice salamander, look in this direction. Sweet, creamy and round sherry with aromas of toasted rye bread, figs and caramel. In the mouth it is rich, sweet and lightly spiced with dried fruit, orange peel, caramel and a bit of walnut. Good acidity and long delicious aftertaste. If you go with cherry sauce, save it for the cookies!
Eat Better
By Jesper Bo Bendtsen
If you can think of choosing caramel sauce for the rice salamander instead of the classic cherry sauce, then look in this direction. The sherry is sweet, creamy and round with aromas of toasted rye bread, figs and caramel. It tastes slightly spicy of dried fruit, orange peel and a bit of walnut. Good acidity and long aftertaste.
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The vine leaf
Complex and elegant
Big, complex scent, many layers, hay, prunes, caramel, licorice, orange peel. Full, rich, creamy taste with a long, long, elegant aftertaste, sweet and at the same time full of life.
About Lustau
Lustau is exceptional sherry. In recent years, Emilio Lustau has won many awards for its sherry quality, not least the title of “Best Spanish Bodega”. Many of the prizes have gone to the house’s own wines, but some have actually also gone to the so-called almacenista sherries, for which Emilio Lustau is very well known. Small, individual winegrowers sell their, often very nuanced, wine to Lustau. Where all other sherry houses blend the almacenistas’ wine in-house, Emilio Lustau is the only house that allows the almacenista wines to be bottled separately. Regardless of which Lustau sherry you choose as your first acquaintance, you will not for a moment doubt why Emilio Lustau is the leading star of the area and a trendsetter in the rest of the world!
The foundations of Lustau were laid in 1896, when José Ruiz-Berdejo, in his spare time, began to cultivate the vines that stood on the family estate, Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza. Humble beginnings, which turned into more when the wines began to be sold to larger sherry producers – an activity known in the area as “almacenista”. In 1931, José’s daughter, MarÃa Ruiz-Berdejo Alberti, bought a small winery closer to Jerez de la Frontera and gave the family greater visibility. In the 1940s, Maria’s husband, Emilio Lustau Ortega, moved the winery to the old part of the city and began to expand the business in old, Moorish buildings, still as an almacenista. In 1945, however, Lustau stopped that occupation and began selling his own sherry brands. The name Lustau became synonymous with quality and in 1990 Lustau joined forces with another prominent company name in the spirits industry, Luis Caballero. It ensured additional stability and economic muscle.
Today, Lustau is considered a benchmark for world-class sherry. There have been many medals and trophies, e.g. “Best Spanish Winery” in 2011 and “Best Sherry Producer” in 2014 and 2016 at the International Wine & Spirit Competition.
