Lustau Manzanilla 3 En Rama - Sacca 2025

Sanlúcar de Barrameda sits on the estuary of the Guadalquivir river with Atlantic breezes coming off the ocean. Its microclimate impregnates the yeasts growing on the surface of the Manzanilla with unusual sea salt character. Very pale straw yellow, delicately salty, underlying apple fruit, a touch of yeast, a hint of iodine, dried algae and lime.

Country: Spain Region: Sanlúcar de Barrameda Grape: Palomino
ABV: 15.5%   Bottle Size: 50cl

Additional Information: These Lustau sherries are only released once per year when their cellar master Sergio Martínez draws on his years of experience to select only the very best casks of biologically aged sherries and bottles them straight from the cask, raw and unfiltered, or ‘En Rama’ as this process is referred to. Timing is key and Lustau is uncompromising in their commitment to quality, refusing to bottle En Rama Sherry until it is ready. April is when the flor is at its thickest, following optimal growing conditions during the humid, cool winter months and a sufficiently wet spring.

The En Rama experience can be likened to tasting Sherry directly from the cask in the cathedral-like surroundings of Lustau’s standout bodegas. The lack of fining and filtration keeps the tasting experience authentic and allows you to experience fino Sherry at its absolute freshest and best. Whilst En Rama Sherry is intended to be enjoyed as fresh as possible, it can be kept for months, the salty delicacy will simply slowly give way to nuttier flavours.

The 3 En Rama range comprises a Fino, from Jerez de la Frontera, another Fino from El Puerto de Santa María and a Manzanilla from Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
Lustau is unique in that they release not one but three different En Rama Sherries;
Fino de Jerez En Rama, Fino del Puerto En Rama and Manzanilla de Sanlúcar En Rama.
As the only house to make Sherry in all three towns of the Sherry triangle, Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Sanlúcar de Barrameda, it gives us a rare opportunity to observe the unique differences in the local microclimates of these areas.