Deep amber with coppery highlights. Raisins and figs lead, layered with honey and dried date, lifted by a touch of muscatel and the racy acidity that keeps this from ever turning cloying. Unctuous and concentrated, with a savoury, vegetal edge on the finish—the house signature of balance over sheer weight. 100% hand-harvested Pedro Ximénez, sun-dried on straw mats before pressing; 17% abv.
Toro Albalá is the world's foremost name in Pedro Ximénez—based in Aguilar de la Frontera, DO Montilla-Moriles, and the first producer to commercialise bottled dessert-style PX back in 1970. Old bush-vine fruit off chalky albariza soils, married to decades of winemaking discipline, is what gives their PX its trademark lift alongside the richness. A natural with chocolate desserts, salty blue cheese, or figs—equally good by the glass chilled as it is at room temperature.