{"id":12517,"date":"2021-07-02T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2021-07-02T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:24:40","slug":"lustau-palo-cortado-vors-named-worlds-best-fortified-wine-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/awards\/lustau-palo-cortado-vors-named-worlds-best-fortified-wine-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lustau Palo Cortado VORS named World&#8217;s Best Fortified Wine 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 90%;\">Jerez, 1 July 2021.<\/span><\/strong> Once again, Bodegas Lustau took a starring role at the awards ceremony for the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwinechallenge.com\/\"><strong>International Wine Challenge<\/strong><\/a>, receiving two very important prizes. Firstly, <a href=\"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/coleccion\/sherry-wines,vors-en\/palo-cortado-vors\/\"><strong>Lustau Palo Cortado VORS<\/strong><\/a> was awarded the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwinechallenge.com\/canopy\/beverage_details?wid=162878\"><strong>Champion Fortified Wine &#8211; Manuel Lozano Trophy,<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; crediting it with the position of the world&#8217;s best fortified wine for 2021. On the other hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/about-lustau\/#equipo\"><strong>Sergio Mart\u00ednez, winemaker at Lustau,<\/strong><\/a> received the title of &#8220;<strong>Fortified Winemaker of the Year<\/strong>\u201d for the fifth consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12507 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Mejor Vino Generoso 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-39x39.jpg 39w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-18x18.jpg 18w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-25x25.jpg 25w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-266x266.jpg 266w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Palo-Cortado-VORS-Champion-Fortified-Manuel-Lozano-Trophy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nThese two prizes, which were revealed last night, were the finishing touches to the 38th edition of the London-based competition and certify the excellent track record of the sherry winery, which also received the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwinechallenge.com\/canopy\/beverage_details?wid=162878\"><strong>Sherry Trophy<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwinechallenge.com\/canopy\/beverage_details?wid=162878\">Palo Cortado Troph<\/a>y<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwinechallenge.com\/canopy\/beverage_details?wid=162896\"><strong>Pedro Xim\u00e9nez Trophy<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is an immense source of pride for the winery, and particularly for Sergio, to have received the \u201cChampion Fortified Wine &#8211; Manuel Lozano Trophy\u201d, an award that has been associated with Lustau\u2019s former capataz, Manuel Lozano, since 2016, the year that he passed away. Sergio worked hand-in-hand with him for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12509 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Mejor En\u00f3logo de Vinos Generosos\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-39x39.jpg 39w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-18x18.jpg 18w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-25x25.jpg 25w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-266x266.jpg 266w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lustau.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Best-Fortified-Winemaker-2021.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nOn hearing the news, Sergio stated: &#8220;<em>For everyone that makes up the Lustau team, and those of us who were lucky enough to work alongside him, it is a great honour to win a prize that bears Manolo&#8217;s name. Being awarded the title of Fortified Winemaker of the Year for the fifth year in a row proves that we are on the right track, and the work of everyone on the team is key and fundamental to this.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerez, 1 July 2021. Once again, Bodegas Lustau took a starring role at the awards ceremony for the prestigious International Wine Challenge, receiving two very important prizes. Firstly, Lustau Palo Cortado VORS was awarded the \u201cChampion Fortified Wine &#8211; Manuel Lozano Trophy,&#8221; crediting it with the position of the world&#8217;s best fortified wine for 2021&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lustau.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}