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...I have caught Paco Peña in his stern phase, between rehearsals for Solera, a 2022 production which returns to Sadler’s Wells this month....
....£9.95 The Wine Society González Byass, Tesco Finest Aged Fino NV Sherry (15%)Benefiting from six rather than the usual four years in the solera, so it’s more interesting but arguably a little less refreshing...
...Even more creatively labelled are fellow 17-pointers Sánchez Romate Oloroso Encontrado (£15.99 a half-bottle) and Cayetano del Pino Palo Cortado Solera (£14.99 a half-bottle), both bone dry sherries and...
...Solera, another Vista-owned software company, swapped some of its existing cash-pay debt with PIK notes this summer, according to filings with US securities regulators....
...Should last for decades.£43 for 50 cl Majestic Samos Solera Aged Muscat NV Samos 15%Long-aged in oak....
...Paco Peña, whose Solera was seen at Sadler’s Wells this Easter, offers a no-nonsense line-up of virtuoso dancing (Angel Muñoz and Gabriel Matias) and his own transcendent guitar....
...base of 2016, including quite a high proportion of fruit from grand and premier crus villages, has been deepened with 40 per cent of wine from this family house’s “réserve perpetuelle”, a longstanding solera...
...Deep inside the cellars, Vieille-Grosjean took me through the complex system of soleras by which sherry is blended and aged....
.... £14.95 for 50cl Davy’s Wine Merchants Les Vignerons de Maury, Solera 1928, Cask 873 Maury, Roussillon 17% Red Grenache long aged in oak in the far south-west of France, where this is the traditional wine...
...Woodwinters Dhondt Grellet, Terres Fines Blanc de Blancs NVA subtle rather than showy champagne with no shortage of Chardonnay fruit based on the 2016 vintage but deepened by the addition of 30 per cent of a solera...
...And be careful to distinguish between older bottles that are genuinely vintage dated and those with the word Solera on the label....
...The solera system dates from 1928 and is still refreshed today, yielding a heady mixture of spicy chocolate and treacle toffee. Great value....
...Sangiovese. 14% The Whole Shebang XII California £16.95 Berry Bros & Rudd and Vin Cognito Bargains from the West Coast are rather thin on the ground but Master of Wine Morgan Twain-Peterson makes this from a solera...
...Three levels of text run throughout — surtitles for Temistocle Solera’s libretto, a CNN-style TV screen running political clips with titles, and an oversized red news ticker....
...blockbuster spectacle came at the expense of detailed character development (Odabella’s ambiguous attraction to Attila, who murdered her father, felt underexplored), and consequently librettist Temistocle Solera...
...Nowadays, Harveys doesn’t even have its own bodega in Jerez, but there are some tip-top sherries available under the Harveys name, based on particularly venerable soleras....
...Barbadillo, Pastora Manzanilla En Rama Pasada From £5.83 for 37.5cl Cambridge Wine Merchants and others Emilio Lustau, Puerto Fino Solera Familiar £15.35 for 75cl Berry Bros & Rudd Hidalgo, La Gitana Manzanilla...
...Emilio Lustau Very Rare Palo Cortado NV Sherry £9 for 37.5cl M&S Morrisons sells a version of this wine at just £6 a half, which is a great bargain, but this one from what is described as an “exclusive solera...
...I did come across one very useful dated solera wine recently, De Muller’s Aureo 1954 Solera Tarragona....
...Its board includes leading doctors, financiers and benefactors, including the singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte and Diana Taylor, vice-chair of Solera Capital and the partner of Michael Bloomberg...
...The current owner of La Ina is Emilio Lustau, who slowly and painstakingly moved the La Ina soleras to their own bodega from Domecq’s in the old town of Jerez....
...The collapse of the sherry market had many negative consequences but one positive: the region’s greatest soleras, if carefully tended, became greater still as their constituent wines aged further....
...On Monday, Goldman Sachs elected to remove the euro-denominated component of the financing for Solera, which Vista Equity said it would acquire last September....
...Solera has net debt of about $1.9bn. Close behind Vista are two other private equity bidders....
...It is more likely that Solera represents an anomaly. Since its shares reached $70 in late 2013, they have steadily drifted down, to half that level by late July....
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