Description

JEREZ: This is the finest pudding wine I have tried since I started flogging them. It is ultimately dense & concentrated; it is based on a forty (!!!) year old Solera (hence Antique PX) and delivers a dark brown, liquid hit of flavour that you have never tasted before. Treat like an extraordinary good liqueur, a small gloop is all that you need to muse upon for quite some time. Sweet and sticky, coffee, fig, raisin, molasses, oh my.

Made by drying out the already sweet Pedro Ximenez grape on mats in the sun to give a decadent viscous syrupy treat. Tastes like pure raisin juice. Most of these grapes are grown in nearby Montilla-Morilles and then transported to Jerez for winemaking. Why and how this is allowed is a quirk of history. PX is a very different wine to the other sherries and is almost an outlier in itself creating some of the finest pudding wine around. Originally used as a darkening and sweetening component of other sherry blends, such decadent Pedro Ximenez is now common as a single varietal that once tasted is never forgotten – at least by your dentist!