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Bodegas Barbadillo: Two Centuries of Quality

Bodegas Barbadillo was founded in 1821. For two hundred years our family has been devoted to making quality wine with respect for tradition and a passion for innovation. This enduring commitment has earned Barbadillo its place as the foremost specialist in all sherry styles, the main creator of new categories in the region, and the leader in worldwide sales.

We feel privileged that our work to advance wine culture brings pleasure to the table while also contributing to our local communities and to protecting the environment. Together with our team of professionals, the seventh generation at Barbadillo is dedicated to ensuring the future of this legacy.

Tradition and Innovation

The first decades of the 19th century were devoted to manzanilla and to building the foundation for our now ancient amontillado, oloroso, palo cortado, and px soleras.

Over 100 years later the success of manzanilla in Spain, the legendary status of the old sherries, and the flourishing export trade, encouraged the family to begin a process of innovation and experimentation in new styles of estate-grown wines that continues to this day.

Sanlúcar de Barrameda: Origin and History

The origin of our winery is in Sanlucar de Barrameda. This colourful town, with a history going back thousands of years to the semi-mythical land of Tartessus— and through Phoenician, Greek, Roman, and Moorish civilizations—was at the forefront of exploration and trade during the 15th-17th centuries. Both Columbus and Magellan sailed from here.

Much later, in the 19th century, winemakers discovered that Sanlucar had the ideal microclimate for producing and ageing the fine wines of the region. Today both Manzanilla and Barbadillo are inseparable from Sanlucar.

The Winemaker’s Mission

“These ancient wines are hard to describe, but they express themselves on every level. They speak to us of the soil and the weather, the yeasts and the air, the cellars where they age… We are really here to care for them, and not to interfere, to respect the personality of each.”

- Montse Molina

Sherry

The Core Range Our centenary soleras give us affordable wines of exceptional quality, characterised by their finesse and complexity.

Limited Release Aged for many years in the oldest soleras, these sherries show character, intensity and elegance.

Very Old Rare Sherry (VORS).

Aged for more than 30 years in solera and only available in very limited quantities, they offer unrivalled distinction with their extraordinary power and harmony.

Reliquias A limited release of fifty bottles per year allows us to maintain the centuries-old foundation soleras of these legendary wines. They stand alone at the peak of distinction and class for sherry wines.

Versos 1891 Versos is a celebration of an extraordinary man, a family winery, and the history and culture of Sherry itself. It is a limited, once only, 100 bottle release from the private cask of Don Manuel Barbadillo winemaker, businessman, poet.

D.O. Manzanilla de SanlĂşcar de Barrameda

Manzanilla

Solear Barbadillo’s flagship manzanilla and a benchmark quality for flor-aged wines in the sherry district.

This wine shows the classic traits of a top flight manzanilla with its smoothness, grace and maturity.

Six years under flor

Solear embodies Sanlucar’s unique combination of coastal sea breezes and winemaking tradition. Aged for six years under flor in historic cellars overlooking the town of Sanlucar, the forests of Doñana, and the Atlantic ocean beyond.

En Rama Manzanilla Pasada Thanks to the extensive soleras that sustain our role as leaders in manzanilla sales, there are many possibilities to innovate and specialize. Barbadillo pioneered the en rama (unfiltered) category with the first ever bottling in 1999.

Manzanilla Pasada Solear en Rama A limited bottling is made every season to show the nuances of flor development over the seasons in cask and over time in bottle.

Manzanilla Pasada ‘Pastora’ The oldest manzanilla brand in existence, from the exceptional quality Pastora bodega and made in the same pasada style that was so popular 100 years ago.

Wines

from Cadiz

Castillo de San Diego

“Young, unfortified, Palomino white wine.” An innovative, disruptive idea that Toto Barbadillo had more than 40 years ago, led Castillo de San Diego to become the number one bottled white wine in Spain.

Best selling white wine

The first edition was launched in 1975 as “white table wine.” The wine was a pioneer in style and vinification (night harvesting, indigenous yeast selection, anaerobic storage...).

There was nothing quite like it in Spain and it took the market completely by surprise. It is hard to imagine seafood in Andalusia without a bottle of “Barbadillo” alongside.

Maestrante In the early 90´s Spain was booming. Barbadillo launched this young and slightly sweet white wine to popular success that continues today.

Barbadillo Blanco de Blancos Another example of creativity for the sherry district, our Blanco de Blancos is made with an estate-grown selection of Sauvignon Blanc, Verdejo and Muscat cultivated in our albariza soils. Barbadillo Blanco de Blancos is one of the most sophisticated white wines from the region.

Beta A fine sparkling wine was waiting to be made in these Albariza soils so similar to Champagne Craie. The first Andalusian brut made with Palomino and Chardonnay and second fermentation in bottle.

Beta Sur A more complex Beta with 20 months ageing sur lie.

Mirabrรกs Mirabras looks to the past as a way forward in experimental winemaking for the sherry region. Selected Palomino, from the oldest vines of the Pago Cerro de Leyes, undergoes asoleo, fermentation and 18 months ageing in manzanilla casks.

Total production: 2,000 bottles.

Red Wines from Cรกdiz

Quadis & Quadis oak aged Phoenicians brought red wines to Cadiz more than two millennia ago. Quadis is inspired in the transition of the Roman name Gadir to the Arabic. Two different versions of estate-grown red wines from our Gibalbin vineyards that blend indigenous and international varieties and recover the local Tintilla de Rota.

Tintilla Nude Another first in experimentation and innovation in the sherry district. Having reintroduced the variety, this is now the purest expression of Tintilla de Rota.

Brandy

Brandy BB Solera Brandy from Jerez, aged for 12 months in American oak barrels that have been infused over many years with oloroso sherries as part of the traditional system of “criaderas y soleras.�

Brandy Solera Reserva From the best soleras Bodegas Barbadillo has made Barbadillo Solera Reserva, a Brandy with two years of ageing in the solera system that is the perfect ending for the perfect meal.

Brandy Solera Gran Reserva A very limited production of a Brandy aged more than 25 years. Presented with an exclusive gift box. Numbered and signed by the foreman of the winery.

Vermouth

Vermouth Atamån Vermouth made with manzanilla from the historic cellars Angioletti and El Toro in Sanlucar´s Barrio Alto. Inspired by the Ataman vermouths and tonic wines that have been ageing for decades at Bodegas Barbadillo.

Vinegar

Manzanilla Reserve Vinegar This vinegar is made naturally from manzanilla sherry and aged in oak casks for several years in our cellars in SanlĂşcar de Barrameda.

With the long ageing process and quality of the original wine the result is a rich, complex, harmonious and intense bouquet.