1943 Toro Albala Don PX Convento Ginés Liébana

The oldest, most concentrated, nuanced and serious from the range of single-harvest sweet wines I tasted this time was the 1943 Don PX Ginés Liébana, which comes from six butts that had been aging in the cellars without being blended. It has 15% alcohol and a whopping 440 grams of sugar, but the truth is, it doesn’t come through as that sweet. It’s super concentrated, layered and complex, thick and dense, like honey. This is the more serious and canonical, dare I say it, closer to the Jerez style of the old single-harvest PX here this time. This is more austere and conventional but very good indeed. 1,800 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2022.