The 'Palms' are fine aged, thin old-fashioned, that as the stick cut their name from the chalk marks that rank during aging wines according to their characteristics and evolution.
In his book 'Jerez-Xerez-Sherry', Manuel Maria Gonzalez-Gordon, defines' Palmas' as' the names that apply to those fine wines of Jerez remarkably distinguished for its cleanliness, fineness and delicacy of flavor, and the number of palms is proportional to its degree of aging. "
In the enigmatic short sticks of chalk to the vertical line identifies the fine was cut with a horizontal forming a cross when the wine lost its veil of flor during biological aging, while the 'Palms', the vertical line acquired as palm-shaped oblique stripes were added in its evolution from thin to the Amontillado.
