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Fino en Rama Cruz Vieja y Amontillado en Rama Cruz Vieja de Bodegas Faustino González, han sorprendido en su primer año de embotellado, con 91 puntos en la revista más influyente en el mundo del vino The wine advocate, del famoso crítico de vino Robert Parker, el referente internacional más importante entre los profesionales del vino.

Sus puntuaciones crean gran expectación entre consumidores y bodegueros de todo el mundo, que esperan impacientes sus calificaciones, conscientes de la importancia de una buena valoración para las ventas y la proyección de su bodega. Los dos vinos Cruz vieja presentados en 2014 han sido valorados con 91 puntos, que corresponde a la calificación de sobresaliente. Según el catador oficial en España de Robert Parker, Luis Gutiérrez, Cruz Vieja es un nuevo nombre a seguir.

Para Bodegas Faustino González ha sido un honor recibir este reconocimiento en los dos vinos presentados y en el primer año de su embotellado, siendo un gran estímulo, impulsando a esta pequeña bodega familiar para que continue con la labor de creación de estos magníficos caldos jerezanos artesanales.

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Faustino González Fino en Rama Cruz Vieja
A Palomino Dry White Sherry wine from
Spain, Jerez, Andalucia, Spain

The NV Fino en Rama Cruz Vieja is an unfiltered and un-fined Fino aged for an average of five to seven years under ‘flor’. It has a textbook Fino nose of albariza soil, esparto grass, green olives and iodine, balanced and pungent. It has a medium-bodied palate with some volume and sweet green olive flavors. Only 1.260 bottles produced, which are for now sold in Spain and Japan. This is the bottling from May 2014.

Amontillado en Rama Cruz Vieja
A Palomino Dry White Sherry wine from
Spain, Jerez, Andalucia, Spain

Going one step beyond, the NV Amontillado en Rama Cruz Vieja is aged for five years under ‘flor’ and then a further seven years in topped up barrels once the alcohol was adjusted to 17.5% in the ‘soleras’ and ‘criaderas’ system for an average of seven years. It is an elegant, floral wine, with subtle notes of hazelnuts, pine nuts, flowers, honey and a very sharp, salty palate, that makes it extremely long. This is the May 2014 bottling (Lot-141603), and I consider this a great value Amontillado. 1,000 bottles were filled.

Faustino González was, like many others, an ‘almacenista’ who used to produce and stock sherry wines that were sold to other bottlers and has recently started bottling and selling his wines directly. The winery was created in 1971 after Doctor D. Faustino González Aparicio purchased an old ‘solera’ dated in 1789. They work seven hectares of vineyards and still ferment the must in used American oak barrels. They only stock some 400 ‘botas’, quite small for an ‘almacenista’, so they bottle small 1,000-bottle batches of their wines. they are bottling all the styles unfiltered, but only the Fino and Amontillado were ready in time for my tasting. A new name to follow.

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