Jorge Ordonez Esencia No 4 2015 375ml

The mahogany colored and over-the-top-sweet Moscatel 2015 Esencia #4 is super concentrated and produced in minute quantities. It’s their sweetest wine, more concentrated, denser and older. It fermented very slowly from the natural concentration of the must (yields of no more than 15%), and aged in 500-liter oak barrels for a long time, close to seven years here. Time has given it extra complexity and additional layers of aromas and flavors, with traces of old concentrated wine, coconut and vanilla, marmalade, candied orange, brown sugar and roasted Moscatel grapes. It has only 7% alcohol, a pH of 3.2, eight grams of acidity and 335 grams of sugar. It’s not as dense as the very old PX, but it has the texture of oil and is very sweet without being heavy or painful (often the most extreme wines are!), with a note of burnt sugar in the finish. This should be virtually indestructible given the amount of sugar and the concentration it has. 1,300 half bottles were filled in April 2022.