Manzanilla La Guita en Rama saca de octubre 2017 (x6)

I tasted the October 2017 bottling of the NV Manzanilla La Guita en Rama, from their solera fed with wine from Sanlúcar, mainly from the Pago Miraflores. This is a special barrel selection that is not fined or stabilized, and it's only lightly filtered to avoid solids going into the bottle. This is the second bottling after the 2015 one, and the idea is to bottle every two years rather than doing frequent bottlings, so the next one could be later this year. So, I caught it with some bottle age, which might have helped to settle the nose that was nuanced within the pungent and mineral style of the Miraflores vineyard. The palate was harmonious and felt polished and silky, elegant rather than powerful. It's interesting to see the evolution of these wines with time in bottle, with further development in the nose and more refinement in the palate. 15,500 375-milliliter bottles were filled in October 2017.