If a recipe calls for ‘Chinese cooking wine or dry sherry’, fino or manzanilla are good substitutes; sweet sherry is not.

What does sherry taste like? Dry styles like fino and manzanilla have a taste of fresh apples combined with almond, yeasty Marmite and bready notes. Not unlike a champagne of white burgundy.

The vermouth is sweet and has notes of fruit, vanilla, and spices. The fino sherry is dry, light, and very delicate, with notes of citrus, grapes, and other fruits. The result is a balance of ...

If a recipe calls for ‘Chinese cooking wine or dry sherry’, fino or manzanilla are good substitutes; sweet sherry is not.