Álvaro Domecq Alburejo Oloroso: Notes of Word ans hazelnuts.

A minor offence, this sherry puff:

Intense mahogany colour, clean-vibrant. Notes of Word ans hazelnuts. Dry yet rich. A lovely long nutty taste.

The website translation is also poor – something of a come-down for the family which produced Álvaro Domecq y Díez (Wikipedia surprisingly omits his war service), for whom getting things right, whatever he did, seems to have been second nature. Here’s a pasodoble dedicated to him by José María Martín Domingo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYPzep_cq8

Here’s his son at work in Madrid in 1970:

And here is the offending bottle:

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(H/t: a local beverage and language expert.)

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