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The 1946 Don PX Convento Seleccion produced with Pedro Ximenez grapes dehydrated under the sun at the time of the Second World War, was only bottled in September 2011. This is an extreme wine, my first descriptor was ultra-mega-super concentrated. It is unbelievably powerful, both in the nose and the palate, full of umami, with sweet cinnamon, Christmas cake, camphor, petrol, lemongrass, Belgian chocolate and butter. Incredibly complex and rich, sweet, balanced and smooth in the palate, it is both very sweet and somehow salty, and with time it develops a black olive note. It combines the texture of the 1962 and the elegance of the 1949. It is as decadent as it gets. 825 bottles were produced. This wine will survive all of us. These wines are kept for generations and offered in very small quantities, but it’s amazing that you can still buy and drink something so old, and I’m even tempted to say that it might represent good value for what it is. A real tour de force sweet wine. (LG)

Bid on this magnum of 1946 Bodegas Toro Albalá “Don PX Convento Selección” Pedro Ximénez Montilla-Moriles (1.5L) (OWC) (100RP), a legendary 100-point sweet wine and one of the first Spanish fortified wines ever to earn a perfect score from Wine Advocate. Made from sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes harvested in the era of the Second World War, it aged in a single cask for more than 65 years at the historic Aguilar de la Frontera bodega, founded in 1844. Wine Advocate’s Luis Gutiérrez called it “ultra-mega-super concentrated.” Expect raisins, dates, dried figs and candied orange layered with cinnamon, toffee, cocoa and coffee, with a dense, syrupy texture and a near-endless bittersweet finish. A rare large-format treasure for collectors of great sweet wines.