{"id":90170,"date":"2021-12-10T13:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/?p=90170"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:31:35","slug":"barbadillos-oenological-jewels-auctioned-by-christies-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/barbadillos-oenological-jewels-auctioned-by-christies-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbadillo\u2019s oenological jewels auctioned by Christie\u2019s in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Four bottles of the very first En Rama Sherr<\/b><b>ies:\u00a0 Barbadillo\u2019s Manzanilla en Rama \u2018Saca\u2019 Releases from 1999 and thr<\/b><b>ee <\/b><b>magnums<\/b><b> from single cask Amontillados and a Palo Cortado of the San Roberto cellar were sold at auction in London last week.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>The wines from Bodegas Barbadillo were auctioned together with treasures from the world of wine and spirits from great brands like Roman\u00e9e<\/b><b><i>-Conti, Perrier Jouet, Pomerol <\/i><\/b><b>or century-old single malt whiskies.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of seven Sherries from Bodegas Barbadillo were auctioned in London by the prestigious auction house <\/span><b>Christie&#8217;s. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The oenological jewels were divided into two different \u2018batches\u2019 which created enormous expectations amongst wine enthusiasts and collectors of great wines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, four half bottles of the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manzanilla en Rama \u2018Saca\u2019 releases from 1999<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were sold for a total of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0613 pounds (715 \u20ac)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 These were the first seasonal \u2018sacas\u2019 produced in the Sherry region, bottled in each season: spring, summer, autumn and winter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also the first \u2018En Rama\u2019 classified Sherry ever produced. \u2018En Rama\u2019 means, directly from the cask (unfiltered) and Barbadillo essentially invented this category with these first bottlings in 1999. Today the \u2018Solear\u2019 En Rama seasonal saca is the only one that offers four releases per annum, each with its own nuances and organoleptic characteristics, coinciding with the beginning of each season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-90164 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ManzanillaRama_064W.jpg\" alt=\"manzanilla en rama \" width=\"913\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Unique casks of San Roberto<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second batch consisted of two Amontillados and a Palo Cortado, which were obtained from single casks and \u2018hidden\u2019 in the San Roberto cellar and left untouched for many years. Now they have been bottled as SINGLE CASK Sherries and just one Magnum of each was prepared, just for this auction. Three authentic jewels of great age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Amontillados are the most interesting wines of the Marco de Jerez as they begin their ageing under a floating layer of yeast called la flor and are then aged oxidatively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third magnum is from a single cask of Palo Cortado from the San Roberto bodega, also of exceptional age. It\u2019s a Sherry that is highly valued among wine experts as it is neither an amontillado nor an oloroso, being organoleptically somewhere between the two.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final \u2018bid\u2019 for these three exclusive and inimitable bottles, was 1,556 pounds (1820 \u20ac).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tim Holt, Barbadillo\u2019s International Area Director, commented: \u201c<\/span><b>Barbadillo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> never ceases to amaze me with these \u2018oenological jewels\u2019 we find in centenary casks seemingly hidden away in different corners of our bodegas waiting to be discovered\u201d, and concluded: \u201dwe are delighted with the performance of our Sherries in this auction and it shows just how highly appreciated and valued Sherries are becoming these days and particularly from Barbadillo\u2019s bicentenary bodegas\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-90166 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Magnums-San-Roberto-Barbadillo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"697\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four bottles of the very first En Rama Sherries:\u00a0 Barbadillo\u2019s Manzanilla en Rama \u2018Saca\u2019 Releases from 1999 and three magnums from single cask Amontillados and a Palo Cortado of the San Roberto cellar were sold at auction in London last week. The wines from Bodegas Barbadillo were auctioned together with treasures from the world of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":90164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90174,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90170\/revisions\/90174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbadillo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}