Some Thoughts on Serving Sherry While most people have a good idea how to store and serve red and white table wines, sherry sometimes trips them up. In fact, poor service and storage is one of the reasons sherry is less popular than it deserves. Here are some guidelines to help you get the most [...]
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Pairing Sherry with Food: Anything with nuts in it probably has a friend in some sort of sherry. Finos and Manzanillas make great aperitifs, and match perfectly with many tapas and hors-doevres such as olives, shrimp, nuts, and hard cheeses; light Manzanillas are also a hit with raw oysters. Amontillados are a little more robust; [...]
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The Varieties of Sherry Here are the various types of Sherry, depending on the evolution of the “veil of flor”(Editor’s Note: For those less familiar with true sherry, it’s important to note that, aside from the Pedro Xinemez, none of these wines are usually sweet. The “Cream” sherries one sees outside of Spain are blends [...]
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Sherry and Food Sherry is a blended wine of several years, not a single vintage. The differences between the various types of Sherry are much more marked that those of table wines from the same bodega with different vintages.The diversity of Sherry makes it difficult to acquire a good knowledge of them, which is in [...]
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The Solera Flor is the first element unique to sherry; the solera aging system is the second. This special aging method was thought up to balance the characters of the different wines. In principle, long lines of casks are stacked on top of each other at least three casks high. This stack is called the [...]
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Ageing Sherry is aged by an original system called “criaderas y solera” in American oak casks of 600 liters, filled to 5/6ths capacity. While in other Denominations (D.O.) the casks are hermetically sealed, in Jerez they are open to allow the wine to be aired by the southwest breezes which, when in contact with the [...]
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Quality Control All wines entitled to carry the label Jerez-Xérès-Sherry and Sanlúcar de Barrameda are protected by the Denomination of Origin that guarantees their control from vine to bottle.The Romans were the first to establish control over our wines, making it compulsory for the amphorae containing wine from the region to be marked with four [...]
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Grape Varieties The viticulture of Jerez is practically mono-varietal. 95% of the vines are of the Palomino grape variety, which was brought to the region by Yañez Palomino, a knight in Alfonso X The Wise’s court, after the conquest of Jerez in 1264 A.D.The Pedro Ximenez grape was brought from Germany to the region by [...]
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The Veil of Flor When fermentation has finished, the wine has reached a minimum of 13.5% alcohol; the wine is racked into 500 liter casks, but they are not filled to the top as they would be in almost any other wine region of the world. Inside the cask an unusual biological aging begins under [...]
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Sherry Wine Information Jerez is locateded, in Andalucia, southwest Spain. Sherry, at the time a simple red wine, was started by the Phoenicians here around 1100 BC, and the practice was continued by the Romans. The Arabs invaded in 711, renaming the town here ‘Sherish’. This became ‘Jerez’. And so a tradition was born. The [...]
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