This is the start of a delicate ageing process which will demand caution and constant care by our cellar masters: in the Criaderas & Solera system, which lies at the heart of wine making in Montilla, young wine is gradually mixed with older wines by transferring from barrel to barrel. We sack (extract) small quantities of wine from the solera (butts close to the floor, containing the oldest wine) and sprinkling them with wine from the first criadera (nursery), this with wine from second Criadera and so forth, according to the oldest traditions and ensuring the homogenization and unalterable maintenance of the quality of our wines.

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Finos, amontillados, olorosos, pedro ximénez, brandy and vinegar, so called de solera, share this peculiar and dynamic ageing system, which is longer, more complicated and expensive than the extended and static vintage system, and is exclusive to the south.

PEREZ BARQUERO, ARTISAN TRADITION SINCE 1905.