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Paez Morilla make excellent Sherry Vinegar in the solero style Paez Morilla make excellent Sherry Vinegar in the solero style. It is a method of maturation which ensures that each year the sherry vinegar tastes exactly the same as the vinegar of the same type in preceding year. Solera is derived from the Spanish ?suelo ? ? floor . In the sherry context it means the foundation or final stage of a blend, which is generally the lowest row of butts closest to the floor . A solera system consists of rows of casks of identical vinegar which are fed into successive criaderas (nurseries) of previous years in graduated stages of maturity. When a vinegar is required , a proportion is drawn from the casks at the final solera stage , which are refilled from the first criadera . The first criadera is refilled from the second and so on in a waterfall sequence . In this way a chain of maturity is achieved. A good shipper runs the system slowly to ensure that the character and average age of the s
