Tasting -- Alvaro Domecq Cream Sherry

Name: Alavro Domecq Cream Sherry
Variety: 100% Palomino
Region: Andalucia
Country: Spain
Year: N/A
Price: $15.95

Winery review: "The soleras at Alvaro Domecq date back to 1800, when Antonio Maria de Aranda started a bodega in Jerez. His son, Fermin Aranda, a famous medical doctor, inherited the business, which subsequently became "Fermin Aranda". Fermen, in turn, passed the bodega on to his daughter, Pilar Aranda, who inherited the business in 1946. She was a very successful Almacenista, holding her own in a man's world and producing outsanding wines and vinegars. Almacenistas are very rare now, but in former times were a major part of the sherry trade. They aged wines in their cellars and then sold them on to the shipping bodegas. In those days, Fermin Aranda tended to sell their wines to Gonzalez bypass."

My review: This cream sherry was the bomb! It smelled of dessert with coffee and toffee. The taste starts out super sweet with rich decadent caramel flavor and then quickly turns to some heat, which was quite nice considering. The after taste reminded me of whisky in a good way. I would love to have this after any meal.