{"product_id":"equipo-navazos-la-bota-108-de-oloroso-bota-no-jerez-nv-37-5cl","title":"Equipo Navazos, La Bota 108 de Oloroso Bota NO, Jerez NV - 37.5cl","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a small bodega on Calle Olivo in Chiclana, twenty-five miles south of Jerez, Chano Aragón looks after a butt of oloroso that nobody is allowed to refill. \u003cem\u003eBota NO\u003c\/em\u003e is the chalk mark on the cask itself: do not top up, do not touch. The wine inside is somewhere close to ninety years old. Equipo Navazos bottled a small part of it as La Bota 108.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstand what that means before you pull the cork. Nine decades of oxidative ageing in a butt that has never been refreshed leaves behind almost nothing but concentrate. It is bone dry — there is no sugar in this at all, whatever a dark sherry may lead you to expect — and the acidity is startling. The dry extract is something you can practically chew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMahogany in the glass, turning green at the rim. The nose gives you almost no fruit: tobacco leaf, dark-roast coffee, old leather, walnut shell, a metallic note somewhere near brass. The palate arrives bitter and saline and simply keeps arriving, finishing minutes later drier than it started. This is not a comfortable wine. It is a great one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA half bottle, and rightly so. You will be pouring it in thimbles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow to Serve\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e13–14°C, cellar-cool rather than fridge-cold. Use a white wine glass, not a copita — it wants room. Once opened it will hold for weeks in the fridge. It has survived considerably worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere to Drink It\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBar Lotus, among people who will want to talk about it. Noble Rot, which takes sherry as seriously as it deserves. Dandy at Maltby Street, late on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood Pairings\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamón ibérico and marcona almonds, or a wedge of properly aged Manchego. Salt and fat are the only things that stand up to this much acid and bitterness. Keep chocolate well away from it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Decant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674808934724,"sku":"HO29501CNV","price":71.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0858\/2551\/9940\/files\/HUB-10295174-1-IB-STOCK-N_1_f7238258-18bc-4cb4-998e-2b0629f7b919.png?v=1733165349","url":"https:\/\/checkout.houseofdecant.com\/products\/equipo-navazos-la-bota-108-de-oloroso-bota-no-jerez-nv-37-5cl","provider":"House of Decant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}