Equipo Navazos
“Since my early childhood, as fate tossed around human affairs, I have been tossed around in these parts, and this mountain, visible far and wide from everywhere, is always in your view.” – Francesco Petrarch, The Ascent of Mont Ventoux, 1336 EQUIPO NAVAZOS What originally started out as a private buying club for an Since that first cask of Amontillado, labeled simply Bota de outstanding Amontillado located in the cellar of Miguel Amontillado no.1 in honor of the short story by Edgar Allan Sánchez Ayala, has become one of the most sought after Poe, each successive bottling as been numbered, bottled en series of bottlings sourced from, and inspired by the wines rama, limited in release and quick to sell out. Not content of Jerez and Montilla-Moriles. Jesús Barquín, a professor with only exploring the possibilities of fortified wines, Equi- of criminal law at the University of Granda and Eduardo po has also released brandies, unfortified Palomino Fino Ojeda, the technical director of Grupo Estévez, guided by aged under flor, and a couple of PX wines, one dry and one their vast knowledge of, and unparalleled access to, the best made from raisined grapes. They have also partnered with wines, cellars and soleras of the region, have since 2005 as- Dirk Niepoort and Quim Vila to make a Vin Jaune styled sembled one of the finest offerings of Sherries in the -mar Palomino Fino and Sergei Colet to produce a Cava utilizing ket. When word got out about their project, what was once a flor in the secondary aging of the wine as well as Sherry and hobby became a full-fledged commercial enterprise.
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