Lustau

Lustau

By Velier

The one between Velier and Lustau is a long-standing collaboration now. In fact, it was we who brought it to Italy, presenting their bottles for the first time at Vinitaly in 1998, the year it became part of our catalog. Lustau has well over a century of history and is considered by the trade press and connoisseurs to be a Bodega that expresses a very high level of quality.

Overview

History

Bodegas Lustau was founded in 1896 by José Ruiz-Berdejo, secretary of the Court of Justice, who began cultivating the family vineyards as a hobby, selling his wines to some sherry producers. At the beginning of the 20th century, his son Emilio Lustau Ortega developed the business, building a new winery and making innovations that led the company, around the mid-1900s, toward exporting its sherries. The expansion continued until the early 1980s when, under the direction of Rafael Balao, Bodegas Lustau became among the best wineries in Jerez de la Frontera, award-winning and globally acclaimed.

Method of production

Lustau's range of labels includes, in addition to its celebrated Sherries made directly at the winery, a selection of Sherries vinified by "Almacenistas," or small winemakers who in many cases, as José Ruiz-Berdejo himself did in the beginning, make their wines as a hobby. The grape varieties are Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel. Aging in which the wines age under a veil of yeast known as flor, is a completely natural phenomenon.

Country: Spain
Region: Jerez

Fondazione: 1896

Distribuito da Velier dal: 2016

Sito web: www.emilio-lustau.com

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