Callejeula Manzanilla en Rama 37.5cl

Callejuela Manzanilla en Rama is a sherry wine aged in the solera system under the Flor for nine years. Manzanilla sherry comes from a specific town, Sanlucar de Barrameda, situated at the mouth of the river Guadalquivir. This sherry is made from a careful selection of the most interesting butts in the Manzanilla solera. En rama means that it is unfiltered and unclarified and bottled from the butts.

Brothers Pepe and Paco Blanco founded Callejuela in 1998 in Sanlúcar de Barramada and released their first Callejuela sherry in 2005. The two brothers are the third generation of growers and owners of a small sherry bodega, an almacenista selling wine to the bigger producers. Their father Francisco Blanco founded the small winery in 1980 and developed a solera based on his 5 ha (12 acres) of vines.

Today they have a total of 28 ha (69 acres): in Jerez 4.5 ha in the famous Macharnudo vineyard and 8.5 ha in the Pago Añina, and in Sanlúcar 16 ha in their La Callejuela vineyard in Pago Hornillo. Most of these plantings are Palomino Fino vines on the white chalky albariza that characterises the best sherry country but they recently planted some Pedro Ximénez vines to produce a sweet PX. They are typical of the new movement described by Julia where the main focus is on vineyards (as Peter Sisseck of Pingus described his new Fino operation in Jerez referred to in Gems of Andalucía ignored).