Don PX Convento Selección 1964
£374.88 (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / North Ireland
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
My favorite of all the old sweet PXs I tasted this time was the perfumed and showy 1964 Don PX Convento Selección, which still has the wooden label, but it has also been modernized and made easier to read. It is denser than any of the other wines and has a brighter edge, amber, because the center is opaque and black. It has an incredible perfume; it's floral and spicy with fresher aromas than I remember in the other sweet PXs. It fills your mouth, goes down your throat like liquid gold and explodes in the eternal finish. It's an amazing PX with 15.5% alcohol, lower that most, and with 377 grams of sugar, also lower than most. Elegant and intense, simply delicious. There are 4,630 bottles of this wine, all bottled in February 2022.
Features
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Appellation
Alcohol
17.0%
Grapes
Serving
Between 8ºC and 10ºC
Winemaking
Aged in American oak casks.
Description
In Aguilar de la Frontera, in the warm, white heart of the Montilla Moriles PDO, Toro Albalá holds more than just bottles in its cellars: it holds time. The winery — founded in 1844 — has made patience a practical religion, and in the Convento Selección range that faith becomes almost tangible: wines aged for generations, classified as in an old convent, and guarded with almost monastic meticulousness. In this world, the grape is not a raw material: it is memory. The idea for this wine was born of a bold and personal decision: to select only those batches which, after decades, still had a ‘pulse’ of their own. Thus emerges Toro Albalá Don PX Convento Selección, a cult sweet wine, a single-varietal from sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes, the product of a climate of intense summers and light-coloured soils that enhance ripeness and concentration.
Production
In Toro Albalá Don PX Convento Selección, the Pedro Ximénez grapes are harvested very ripe and undergo drying to concentrate sugars and extracts to the point of the impossible. After fermentation, the wine undergoes a very long oxidative ageing in casks (often with a history of use for fortified wines), where oxygen, wood and time smooth out the rough edges and enhance the complexity. This is not a modern, straightforward sweet wine: it is a fortified wine to be savoured slowly, shaped by decades of evolution before bottling.
Flavour
In the glass, it is a very dark mahogany colour, with coppery highlights and a slow, dense, almost solemn tear. In Toro Albalá Don PX Convento Selección, the nose does not smell of ‘dessert’: it smells of raisins, dates, dried figs and candied orange, with layers of cinnamon, cloves, aniseed and a delicate confectionery note reminiscent of nougat and toffee. With aeration, the depth increases: bitter cocoa, mocha coffee, a hint of balsamic and an umami nuance that balances the sweetness. On the palate, it is opulent, with the texture of fine syrup, yet it does not overwhelm: the acidity and a slight bitter finish—like pure cocoa—clean the palate and extend the finish. Monumental persistence: a wine to be sipped slowly, to be paired with dark chocolate, blue cheeses or, better still, with silence.
Shipping to North Ireland
50% discount on orders over £344.63Estimated transit time: 4-5 working days.
| Bottles | Price | Over £344.63 |
|---|---|---|
| 1-6 | £11.11 | £5.56 (-£5.56) |
| 7-12 | £15.08 | £7.54 (-£7.54) |
| 13-18 | £21.11 | £10.55 (-£10.55) |
| 19-24 | £28.86 | £14.43 (-£14.43) |
| 25-30 | £33.51 | £16.76 (-£16.76) |
| 31-36 | £37.48 | £18.74 (-£18.74) |
| 37-42 | £45.23 | £22.62 (-£22.62) |
| 43-48 | £49.54 | £24.77 (-£24.77) |
| 49-54 | £55.96 | £27.98 (-£27.98) |
| 55-60 | £60.14 | £30.07 (-£30.07) |
| VAT included | ||
