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Equipo Navazos La Bota 90 Mazanilla Pasada Capataz Cabo

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Equipo Navazos La Bota 90 Mazanilla Pasada Capataz Cabo
Producer Equipo Navazos
Region, Country Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain
Bottle Size 750ml
Case Size 6
Product Code 22412-750

This prodigious Manzanilla had never been bottled until Equipo Navazos selected it in 2008 for its 10th La Bota release. This was followed two years later by No. 20 Bota Punta. This is surely one of the most complex and flat-out delicious dry sherries that exist in the world today (in bottle at least). Over the last decade, under the direction of Navazos’ Eduardo Ojeda, this solera of just 15 casks has been carefully managed by Capataz Cabo, one of the region’s great cellarmasters and whose work is now commemorated on the label.

This bottling has an average age of around 14 years and is a wine of singular and intense biological character (powerful steely notes of salinity on the palate). There are two keys to unlocking the style and quality here. Firstly, the lion’s share of the Palomino has come from Sanlúcar’s de-facto Grand Cru pago Miraflores. Then, like the Bota 59, the butts were filled through the maturation process—almost up to a tocadedos. Therefore, this Manzanilla offers some elegant and very subtle oxidative complexity that is not at all typical. This also increases the alcohol slightly to about 16.5%.

The result is an incredibly fine, complex and powerful wine of balanced freshness, intense salinity and gentle oxidative notes. Truly unique and stunningly versatile on the dinner table, it matches a wide variety of foods, from rich fish dishes and charcuterie to scrambled eggs with porcini or runny sheep’s cheese. Best served around 12ºC in proper wine glasses.


Equipo Navazos La Bota 90 Mazanilla Pasada Capataz Cabo

Reviews

“... the extraordinary NV La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 90 Capataz Cabo, a wine that comes from a solera filled with wine from Sanlúcar, mostly from the Pago Miraflores, that averages ten years under flor and a further five years topped up. This is a blend of different casks, as it was done in editions 10, 30 and 59. These wines are bottled in 750-milliliter bottles, which is different from the single-cask ones, which are put in half-liter bottles. This is nuttier than the regular Manzanilla and even nuttier than the majority of Manzanilla Pasada, keeping the saline and marine character, hints of iodine and low tide, but also something floral and more ethereal. The palate is super expressive and explosive, pungent and nuanced, with very pure and long-lasting flavors. Really impressive. It should be bottled by the time this report comes out. This is truly impressive and should make a monumental wine. 2,500 bottles to be produced.”
96-97 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate

Reviews

“... the extraordinary NV La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 90 Capataz Cabo, a wine that comes from a solera filled with wine from Sanlúcar, mostly from the Pago Miraflores, that averages ten years under flor and a further five years topped up. This is a blend of different casks, as it was done in editions 10, 30 and 59. These wines are bottled in 750-milliliter bottles, which is different from the single-cask ones, which are put in half-liter bottles. This is nuttier than the regular Manzanilla and even nuttier than the majority of Manzanilla Pasada, keeping the saline and marine character, hints of iodine and low tide, but also something floral and more ethereal. The palate is super expressive and explosive, pungent and nuanced, with very pure and long-lasting flavors. Really impressive. It should be bottled by the time this report comes out. This is truly impressive and should make a monumental wine. 2,500 bottles to be produced.”
96-97 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate

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