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You may know it as Grandma’s tipple, but in its native Spain, sherry is the drink of cigar-smoking macho men. In fact, in standing-room-only tapas bars, it is the food wine of choice in all its seven ...

Sherry is perhaps the least understood of all fine wines. Traditionally, it has been relegated to the province of great aunts and visiting rectors. And even for those who do imbibe, there is always ...

Who drinks sherry anymore? Hardly anyone, it seems. Shakespeare's Falstaff did; sherris sack is what he called it and he drank prodigious amounts of it. That sherry was from Spain. The last time true ...

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 ...

Sherry cocktails have come a long way from hot sack posset. A custardy Middle Ages concoction of sherry, milk and eggs, popular first in Britain and then the New World, sack posset eventually gave way ...

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