Wine Review: Lustau East India Solera Cream Sherry

Wine-Searcher's Wine Director, David Allen MW, tastes a sweetened Oloroso (or Cream Sherry) produced in a way that mimics the ageing of wines during their shipment on sailing ships in the 17th Century - Bodegas Lustau's East India Solera Cream Sherry.

Bodegas Lustau is a famous Sherry producer in Andalucia and is arguably the most recognized fortified wine producer in the world.

It was was founded in 1896 by José Ruiz-Berdejo as an almacenista, which also grew its own vines. Almacenistas generally bought young wine (Ruiz made his own) and matured them in their own soleras, before selling them to larger houses, who would either blend it with older wine, or mature it longer in their larger soleras. It wasn't until the 1950s that Ruiz's son-in-law Emilio Lustau Ortega began bottling and exporting his own wine.

Now based in Jerez, Lustau is the only producer with sites in all three cities of the Sherry triangle: Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María and Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Lustau buys fruit from vineyards, while also maintaining two of its own. The first is the Montegilillo vineyard, which is on the white limestone albariza soil local to the region. The second is the Las Cruces vineyard, which is on sandy coastal soils in Chipiona.

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