Tradicion VORS 30 Year Old Oloroso Sherry
Jerez Oloroso
NV

The producer

The Rivero family can trace their history of involvement with wine in the sherry region all the way back to 1650. Yet the modern history starts in 1998, when Joaquin Rivero establishes Bodegas Tradicion. From the outset, his idea was to focus only on very old casks and wines with either VOS or VORS designations and to bottle tiny batches of those. The wines see no cold stabilisation, sulphite addition, fining, or filtration, and no sweet flavouring, and are those, we could say, the purest of grape and wine development expression. The annual production is only around 25,000 bottles.

The wine

The Tradicion VORS 30 Year Old Oloroso Sherry is a complex and elegant Oloroso, aged for an average of 42 years, making it significantly older than the minimum 30 years required for VORS certification. Originating from soleras dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, this sherry showcases a bright, orange-tinted color, a fragrant nose with fruity, nutty, and spicy notes, alongside a palate that balances vivid acidity with round nutty and chocolate flavors, all while maintaining a completely dry profile.

We choose our wines based on a range of criteria (see how we choose our wines) of which critic scores is just one. Rather than simply highlight the best score to promote a wine, our average critic score is calculated from the scores provided by several respected wine critics, who we follow for specific regions. They do not represent all critic scores and, wherever possible, we try and give more weight to more recent reviews. Where appropriate we consider market-based scores like Global Wine Score or Wine Searcher Average scores.

As a rule, we look to offer wines that achieve a 92/100 average critic score or better and frankly a lot of very good wines simply don’t make the cut. As a high-end provider we want to reflect that positioning in the quality of wines we offer. Such wines are only a tiny fraction of those generally on offer in the market. We believe that an average score is a more conservative and representative approach, but it is still subjective and only offered as a guide to our customers, who will (and should) do their own research. We will add individual critic scores to our website in the future.