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La Gitana En Rama Manzanilla de Barrameda, Bodegas Hidalgo - 2025 release

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75cl ALC 15%
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Intense, complex and balanced on the nose, this En Rama is a crisp, citrusy and salty wine, influenced by the close proximity of the cellars in Sanlucar de Barrameda to the sea.

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Spain, Sherry, Manzanilla & Fino

Fortified

Palomino

100% Palomino

Dry and nutty

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Nibbles & Tapas

15%

75cl

Vegetarian

Vegan

Hidalgo-La Gitana

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"It’s that time of year, and who’s brave enough to bet that it won’t be another glorious summer, given that climate change is heating things up at an uncomfortable pace? If you would like to bathe your palate in the ultimate, refreshing, and palate-cleansing wine, you have come to the right place. As you will no doubt have gathered, I love absolutes! This year’s En Rama release of the legendary Manzanilla La Gitana beats last year’s, and I could have sworn last year that the bar could never have been lifted any higher! Of course, this means that this twenty-pound wine is the second-best value ‘perfect 20/20-scoring’ wine on the planet (after Hidalgo’s very own Manzanilla Pasada Pastrana). You must buy both, as while they share undeniable DNA, they perform entirely different duties. My featured En Rama is the benchmark fortified-wine-style aperitif, while Pasada Pastrana is the finest, elite tapas accompaniment on earth! En Rama sherries are made from ‘free run’ juice and only use natural yeasts for fermentation. This means they are the most honest, elemental, and sharply tangy of all styles of bone-dry sherry. They are bottled without filtration or fining – which means you are drinking this invigorating elixir ‘directly from the barrel’ via the medium of its bottle, which, if you play your cards right, is only a mere messenger for this wine given it holds it for only a month or so between the winery and your glass. Be sure to seek out this limited-release 2025 bottling because it is smoother, creamier and more magical than ever before. It is safe to say I have never tasted a more electrifying En Rama in my life! Do not miss out on this legendary wine! 20/20"

Tanners Wines Ltd - website

Matthew Jukes , Matthewjukes.com

May 14, 2025

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Hidalgo-La Gitana

Hidalgo-La Gitana

Bodegas Hidalgo - La Gitana was founded in 1792 by José Panaléon Hidalgo, who originally came from the north of Spain. He bought a small winery in Sanlúcar from Don Roque Vejarano, and today Bodegas Hidalgo - La Gitana is still owned by the Hidalgo family which makes it one of last few bodegas totally under family ownership.

It is currently owned and run by the eighth generation Luis, Antonio, Juan and Fermin Hidalgo, and is the ninth oldest company in Spain and the third oldest sherry bodega. For top quality Manzanilla sherries both terroir in the vineyard and ‘terroir’ in the winery are key. Bodegas Hidalgo is in Barrio Bajo, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, just a few hundred metres from the sea, the Guadalquiver River marshes and the Guadalquiver River. This perfect location enjoys higher humidity than in Jerez, giving the best conditions for flor growth and results in the finest dry sherries. Hidalgo is very unusual in owning all their own vineyards, and has large parcels in the top quality Miraflores and Balbaína pagos (a pago is a vineyard cluster or district defined by similar characteristics or ‘fingerprints’). Here the marine sedimentary Albariza soils are very chalky comprising 50-80% limestone. Hidalgo has made great successes of single vineyard releases although their best known wine is the top quality Manzanilla 'La Gitana' (The Gypsy) which comes from the Miraflores pago. In recent years they have released Manzanilla La Gitana ‘En Rama’ which has developed quite a following. It comes from the same vineyard as La Gitana, but is made exclusively from free-run juice. Hidalgo specially selects 35 casks of wine for their En Rama which spends two years longer in solera than La Gitana. It is bottled unfiltered, and ‘En Rama’ can be translated as ‘from the vine’ or ‘straight from the cask’. They also produce a number of other sherries including the raisiny sweet Triana Pedro Ximénez (PX) and very old Wellington Palo Cortado Sherry, 20 years VOS.

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