Garvey has launched the most expensive brandy in the world: the Brandy Solera Gran Reserva Conde de Garvey.
This brandy comes from five barrels that have been kept in the cellar since forever, for exclusive use by the family. The Brandy Solera Gran Reserva Conde de Garvey is a very old brandy, with 200 years of aging and more than 60 years without being touched in the barrel. It is now available on the market.
These barrels each have a lock with its own key, representing the history of this precious treasure. That's why our presentation chest also has its own lock.
According to the story, the founder of the winery, William Garvey Power, used to trade in merino sheep. He traveled from Waterford County, Ireland, his homeland, to Spain to crossbreed his sheep with ours. Until one day, on his last journey, his ship sank in the bay of Cadiz and he was rescued by Captain Rafael Gómez of the Spanish Navy. Showing great hospitality, the Captain took young William to his home in Puerto Real to recover from the shock, where he fell in love with his daughter Sebastiana Gómez Jiménez. Between Sebastiana and the good weather that William found in southern Spain, he decided to stay, get married, and start a new life with the wine business, of which he knew nothing, but he let himself be advised and began to move with exceptional intelligence, honesty, and skill.
Only a few things could be recovered from the ship, including the chains and locks with which William transported the livestock. Later, to remember the day he met his wife, he decided to use these chains and locks to guard the brandy he selected for personal use, the brandy that later became known as Conde de Garvey. Every night, he personally went to put the chains and locks on his barrels, and his successors would do the same.
The owners themselves kept the keys and selected the holandas to replenish the barrels. These holandas were distilled in the cellar itself, thanks to the alembic that the Garvey family had brought from Charente for the production of their brandy, and which the cellar still preserves.
When D. José Mª Ruiz-Mateos learned of the existence of these five barrels of brandy, he wanted to share this experience with others, so he decided to commercialize the brandy for the first time in its history, releasing it to the market under the name of Conde de Garvey.
For the official release of the brandy, which coincided with the feast day of St. Patrick, the Countess of Garvey, who is also the president of the Garvey Group, Mrs. Lourdes Dávila Ybarra, attended.
With this Brandy Solera Gran Reserva, characterized by the complexity that only years can provide, with that mahogany color of old oak staves from colonial America, and with aromas of spices, leather, tobacco, cocoa, in such harmony that inundates the palate with sensations, we are drinking the history of Garvey, which is also part of the history of Jerez brandy.
Conde de Garvey is presented in a handmade wooden chest with gold serigraphs and an exclusive lock. The bottle is made of traditional blown Bohemian crystal, silver serigraphed, with a 925 sterling silver neck and a glass stopper.
The stopper is made of high-quality oak wood and cork. All the bottles are individually numbered and there are only 3,000 bottles available.
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