Paolo Medina Palo Cortado de Anada 2002

As with the other wines, the fruit source is Pagos Añina and Carrascal. This wine is from a fruit selection of extremely fine young material which Paola hoped might develop naturally into a Palo Cortado. It was set to age oxidatively from the get-go, in topped barrels fortified to 18 degrees. After 17 years’ ageing the wine was finally classifed Palo Cortado in 2018, and this is its first bottling as such. Extremely fine and silky wine, elegant and mineral. Golden mahogany to look at, complex tobaccotimber-mineral aromas, delicate and subtle in the mouth, the elusive fine-unctuous double nature of Palo Cortado in clear view. Balanced persistence in a really long finish.