2021 Equipo Navazos OVNI Palomino Fino Blanco Seco Sanlucar de Barrameda

"No 2019 or 2020 was bottled, so I jumped to the unfortified white 2021 Ovni Palomino Fino, which was produced with grapes from vineyards in Sanlúcar in a very low-yielding vintage, healthy (unlike 2020 in Sanlúcar) when the rains were in winter and the spring dry. It fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured mostly without flor in stainless steel, but it always develops some flor that gives it a slight sherry twang. It has only 11.5% alcohol and reminded me of the 2018, aged with fine lees and with some bottle age now (it was bottled six months before I tasted it). This is only the second vintage bottled after 2015. They are very different years; 2018 saw more rain and less alcohol, and the wine is clean, straight, with good freshness and some austerity. 6,000 bottles produced." - Luis Gutierrez Review Date: September 2022