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If there's a place where wine miracles exist, it is the Jerez triangle. Bodegas Lustau has the privilege of being the only winery to produce wines within the three regions of Jerez: Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, and Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

This winery had its modest beginnings in 1986 when José Ruiz-Berdejo began to produce small batches of wine. Little did he know that this small winery that began as a humble dream would become one of the emblematic sherry-producing wineries in the world.

Some years later, this family-owned winery passed into the hands of the Luis Caballero company, a large producer of spirits; this change of ownership allowed a great development and growth of Bodegas Lustau.

Bodegas Lustau has been recognized worldwide thanks to its high-quality standards and constant innovation. It was named Best Spanish Winery in 2011 and Best Sherry Winery in 2014 and 2016 by the International Wine & Spirit Competition.

Since its inception, Bodegas Lustau has remained faithful to its main objective: to offer the consumer the widest and most select collection of Sherry specialties.

The winemaking team behind Lustau wines is second to none. Sergio Martínez is the main winemaker, who is backed by years and years of experience. For five consecutive years, he has been awarded the World's Best Fortified Winemaker by the International Wine Challenge.

Almacenistas are independent Sherry artisans who have historically been producing and aging small stocks of Sherry. For decades, Lustau has led a revolutionary project: bottling a small range of these authentic wines unblended, preserving their genuineness.

100% Palomino Fino. 

Tawny gold color. Complex and elegant, this classic Amontillado is pungent and aromatic, with fine notes of oak. Nutty on the palate with a hint of sweetness and a lingering, dry finish.

An enchanting complexity of caramel, toasted nuts, and soy glides across the nose and palate. Beautifully silky and sumptuous with a gorgeous salty, umami length. ~ 95 Decanter World Wine Awards (Gold Medal)

Color: yellow. Nose: neat, expressive, complex, pungent. Palate: full, flavourful, dry, round. ~95 Guía Penin

The Spanish word almacenista means warehousekeeper or wholesaler. In Sherry-speak, Almacenistas are generally small family businesses that buy or produce young base wines and mature them in soleras for several years. Once (semi-)mature, they are sold to larger houses for blending, or in special growers/instances, produced as a single wine, like this. There once were over 50 almacenistas in the Jerez area; now there are fewer than twenty. José Luis González Obregón has three wines in Lustau's Almacenista range, with Lustau being the first to spotlight these wines/growers. Rich, dry, beauty, with roasted almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts throughout. This complex and layered wine weaves caramel, orange oil, chamomile, preserved lemons, and lightly smoked marine salts over and over, cascading the umami flavors on the palate and hauntingly long finish. Such a mesmerizing wine, and a great reminder to drink more sherry. ~94 Gismondi on Wine

Flawless on the nose, this amontillado, purchased from the solera of Señor González Obregón, is full of lift, power, and toffee on the nose. There's zero excess weight to the palate, which features flavors of nuts, salt, caramel, and dried apricot. On the finish, a hint of buttered toast offers an umami offset to acid-driven raciness. ~93 Wine Enthusiast