And then there is the special bottle. We only have 7 Magnums and 3 Jeroboams to offer. Botani recently celebrated twenty years with an extremely limited anniversary cuvée from the historic Navarrete vineyard in El Borge, a north-facing old-vine Moscatel site. Production was tiny and bottled exclusively in large formats—magnums and 3-liter bottles only. Unlike the regular Botani, a portion of the wine was fermented in large French oak barrels, with the balance in stainless steel, followed by aging on the lees. The idea isn't to make a richer or oakier Moscatel, but to give the extraordinary old-vine material additional texture and dimension while preserving the freshness, perfume and mineral character of the site. This is a more serious and age-worthy expression of the same landscape. Deeper and broader, and incredibly age-worthy..
98 Points JD: “Only in magnum, the 2025 Moscatel Seco Botani 20 Aniversario is gorgeously floral and dry, from Moscatel de Alejandria grown in ridiculously steep slate-soiled, high-altitude vines planted between 1946 and 1960 in the village of El Borge, a single-village selection. A small percent is barrel-fermented, the rest in stainless steel. The minerality is sleek and direct, the texture and fruit medium-bodied and subtly rich. This is one to hold and drink 2035-2045.” ~VB
