Sandeman Royal Ambrosante Pedro Ximenez 20 Year Old Sherry

Dark mahogany in colour. The Royal Ambrosante is pronounced on the bouquet with complex aromas of dried fruits, raisins, toffee, coffee and spice. Full and luscious on the palate, it brings intense notes of nuts, candied fruit, caramel and dried fruit. The delicate flavours caress the taste buds and let the sweetness come to the fore, smooth and sweet with a sumptuous and lingering finish.

In 1790 George Sandeman, an ambitious young Scotsman from Perth, founded a wine business in London. With a £300 loan he bought his first wine cellar and started trading in Porto and Sherry from Tom’s Coffee House. By 1795, he had established an agency in Cadiz, Spain and in 1811 he purchased an ageing cellar in V.N. Gaia in Portugal. In the early 1800s Sandeman wines were shipped to countries within Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and even as far as New Zealand. Sandeman was the first company to brand a cask. In 1805, Sandeman started fire branding their trademark GSC (George Sandeman & Co.) in a crow’s foot design on all pipes they sold, thus giving the wine a name that assured quality. At the end of the nineteenth century “brand” names were largely unheard of but Sandeman wanted to give their customers a guarantee of quality so in 1880 they became the first Porto House to export bottled and labelled wines.