Luis Pérez

My time at Pérez has exploded my brain in a way that's only happened to me three or four times in my career thus far. You all know that I've been a rabid, insatiable partisan of sherry for many years, but now I sit here questioning everything that I thought I knew — and it’s both humbling and exhilarating.

I don't even know where to start... The handsome, articulate and fearsomely intelligent Willy Pérez is at the helm of the estate, and he led me through what I suspect I’ll look back on as a life-changing tasting. Willy’s father, Luis, was the winemaker/oenologist at Domecq until 2002 when he decided that sherry wines had strayed too far from their albariza⁵ roots, thus attempting a minor rectification in the form of his own winery.

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