EMILIO LUSTAU LOS ARCOS SOLERA RESERVA DRY AMONTILLADO SHERRY NV

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.