El Maestro Sierra Oloroso

The history of El Maestro Sierra is one of self-improvement, and non-conformity. The winery was founded in 1830 by master cooper José Antonio Sierra, who ran a prosperous barrel-building business called La Merced. El Maestro Sierra was passed down through the family to Doña Pilar Pla Pechovierto.  She was a brave and resolute woman who inherited the business after the early death of her husband, Antonio Borrego. Pilar managed to drive the business forward despite the prevailing machismo of the time.  El Maestro Sierra became the first and is still one of the few bodegas run entirely by women. When her husband passed away in 1976, Pilar resisted the intense pressure to sell and kept the winery going through tough times by selling wines to the locals in jugs. In 1997, while the men were away from the Consejo Regulador, she was stealthily able to obtain the first bottling permit for an almacenista house, which was forbidden until that point. Pilar was an extraordinary individual with a singularity of purpose: to maintain the grand estate of El Maestro Sierra.  Because the wines have remained virtually unmoved due to the slow business in the following decades, the stocks at El Maestro Sierra are some of the oldest and most undisturbed in Jerez.

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Unfined, unfiltered.