Valdespino 'El Candado' Pedro Ximenez NV

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Valdespino is one of the oldest sherry houses in Jerez, with commercial records tracing back to the fifteenth century and formal incorporation as a company in 1875; the family-founded house is now part of Grupo Estévez, which acquired it in 1999. El Candado ("the padlock," a reference to the small padlock on its neck label) is Valdespino's Pedro Ximénez, made from grapes that are picked fully ripe and then sun-dried into raisins before pressing, with the resulting must aged for years in the solera system to concentrate its natural sweetness.