The young and unoaked sweet wine, the 2014 Pedro Ximénez de Cosecha produced with raisined PX grapes that have been sun dried, now has the vintage clearly visible on the back label. The idea here is to offer a lighter and young style in a clear bottle (similar to the ones from Tokaj) to show the color and express the pure fruit. It does have a powerful nose of raisins and a very sweet palate with its 15% alcohol and 430 grams of sugar. It would have been okay, if I hadn't tasted the base wine for the 2015 harvest next to it, when it was fortified to only 8.8% alcohol, the first blending of the must with alcohol, which is later fortified to 12% and later to 15% - which is the required alcohol level to be able to sell the wine. Clearly 15% is too alcoholic and it all depends on the quality of the alcohol you use; while the base wine was truly the essence of raisins (raisin marmalade if that's possible!), here the alcohol is too evident. I don't really see the logic or the need to fortify these wines to 15%. Anyway, the 2014 is fine as a young, sweet luscious PX do drink chilled in its exuberant youth. 18,000 50-centiliter bottles were produced and the price given is therefore for a half-liter.
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