Primitivo Quiles Fondillón Vino Nobile ‘Gran Reserva’ Solera 1948 NV billecart-salmon sage and bay leaf

sage and bay leaf

Juicy fruit balances the crisp

With such “perfect” raw materials

Rich and complex with flavours of stone fruit and toasty oak spice

Grenache and Syrah

Primitivo Quiles Fondillón Vino Nobile ‘Gran Reserva’ Solera 1948 NV billecart-salmon sage and bay leafUnfortified, this is just remarkably managed in the cellar, to end up presenting as a wine of 16% natural alcohol + 60 years' age character, and still beautifully lively, graceful and elegant. It is lightly sweet, rather than a blockbuster PX style. Very long and easy, it is as much suited to drinking as an aperitif afternoon tipple on ice as it is to the more obvious after dinner liqueur slot. The 1948 Solera is 10 foudre of 1700 litres each,