Soberano Brandy de Jerez

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Here's a question for you liquor mavens. I am very fond of Soberano Reserva Brandy de Jerez. Recently I've noted that they've started to label their bottles with the number of the criadera (I'm assuming this is the vineyard that the grapes came from) for each reserve. What's available down here appears to be almost exclusively the 8th Criadera.

I'm curious whether brandies from the other criaderas are available in other countries, and if so whether there's a big difference in flavour or quality?

[chezcherie]

i just returned from a visit to jerez, but my memory must have been clouded by all that tasting! however, this link confirms my cloudy memory that the criadera refers to the place in the solera system. so i believe your brandy comes from the 8th level of the barrel-stack.

http://www.answers.com/topic/criadera