Bodegas El Maestro Sierra
Since 1830
A small historic winery, a pioneer as the first house in Jerez run entirely by women: Pilar Plá Pechovierto kept it alive for over four decades.
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Jerez de la Frontera · Sherry Region
Macharnudo palette: albariza and goldAbout the winery
It owns no bodega of its own: it hunts down exceptional butts across the Marco and bottles them untouched, in the "La Bota de" series. No project has done more to make the world look at sherry one butt at a time.
It began in 2005 as a joke among friends. Eduardo Ojeda, technical director of the Estévez group, invited Jesús Barquín — professor of criminal law in Granada and one of the sharpest scholars of Andalusian wine — to taste at the Sánchez Ayala bodega in Sanlúcar. They found a forgotten amontillado, bought the whole butt to share among acquaintances, and La Bota de Amontillado nº 1 was born. Every release since carries a consecutive number and one specific butt behind it, from Jerez, Sanlúcar, El Puerto or Montilla-Moriles. Drawing wine from a single butt, with no correction and no blending down, changed the way sherry is talked about beyond the region.