No relationship; just a cool offer that I can’t really justify myself but wanted to share.
Dear Oenophile,
The list of things from 1946 you can still enjoy today must be pretty short (this WAS the year the Vespa and Tupperware were invented)…a La Prosa Kings cigar perhaps…a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith…but here’s a new one to add to the list: the simply staggering Don PX Convento Seleccion from the legendary Bodegas Toro Albala. To call this a dessert wine would be underestimating its potential, although it may be one of the finest and most memorable wines you will ever put in your mouth.
One of the most recent recipients of the fabled ‘Perfect Score’ from The Wine Advocate, this extraordinary wine is already 67 years old and will undoubtedly outlive all of us… it’s one of those mind-bendingly complex taste experiences which are hard to put into words, but Parker’s Spain guru Luis Gutierrez seems to have had a fair stab at it in the note below. One thing’s for sure: we’re desperate to taste it. However - from its miniscule production of just 825 bottles, we have secured an allocation of 18. That’s it!! Arrives Winter.
1946 Toro Albala Don PX Convento Seleccion $395 WA100 (each bottle in wood case)
WA100: “The 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion produced with Pedro Ximenez grapes dehydrated under the sun at the time of the Second World War, was only bottled in September 2011. This is an extreme wine, my first descriptor was ultra-mega-super concentrated. It is unbelievably powerful, both in the nose and the palate, full of umami, with sweet cinnamon, Christmas cake, camphor, petrol, lemongrass, Belgian chocolate and butter. Incredibly complex and rich, sweet, balanced and smooth in the palate, it is both very sweet and somehow salty, and with time it develops a black olive note. It combines the texture of the 1962 and the elegance of the 1949. It is as decadent as it gets. 825 bottles were produced. This wine will survive all of us. These wines are kept for generations and offered in very small quantities, but it’s amazing that you can still buy and drink something so old, and I’m even tempted to say that it might represent good value for what it is. A real tour de force sweet wine. Drink it if you ever have the privilege to do so from 2013-2060.”