Stick your nose into a glass of fino sherry and you may be in for a shock. Years of enjoying the usual sorts of fruity reds and whites will not have prepared you for the wave (some may say assault) of ...
If you know your cream ales from your quadrupels and your Sidecars from your Sazeracs, there’s no reason you can’t learn your Burgundy from your Barolo, too. In this series, we’ll demystify the world ...
Sherry has a bad reputation engendered by sweet sherries and cooking sherries. Move past that. Sherry is made in the southwest corner of Spain. It can only be made in a specific region and shipped ...
Don’t be afraid of sherry. Don’t look down on it, either, because it is one of the world’s great wine styles. Sherry comes from the area around the town of Jerez de la Frontera — you can just call it ...
Just when I think it’s safe to stop talking about the basics of sherry, I’ll meet someone who asks, “Isn’t sherry sweet?” or says, “My grandmother loved the stuff.” There is nothing wrong with these ...
If you’d like to pretend you’re in sunny, southern Spain, grab some olives and a dry sherry from the Jerez region, which is located along the southwestern Andalusian coast. Although some sherries are ...
Sherry is among the most singular wines available today. Consider manzanilla, a type of fino sherry, which we have been examining in Wine School over the last month. While some wines may occasionally ...
While the cold of the winter season is lingering into spring, a glass of sherry and a bowl of soup is the perfect treat to keep you warm. On a cold December evening a few years ago, a restaurant with ...
Instead of sipping on a white wine spritzer at cocktail hour, try breaking open this special bottle of sherry. Yep, sherry. Forget everything you think you know about the sickly sweet sipper. This ...