plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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Sit among the creepy and macabre Halloween decor while sipping on themed cocktails, such as the Sirens Song featuring rum, rye, pineapple, orgeat, sherry and lime.
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Samantha Nelson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Oct. 2024
What to order: Signature drinks like the Cantaloupe Gibson, made with pisco, cantaloupe, manzanilla sherry, grapefruit bitters and rose water, pull a boozy, yet deliciously refreshing punch.
—Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Sherry vinegar: Sherry is a classic flavor in French onion soup, and sherry vinegar gives the flavor without adding any alcohol.
—Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2024
The mackerel escabeche is layered with sherry, spicy ají limón chile, and meyer lemon, and its plating recalls the afternoon sun moving across the sky.
—Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
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Samantha Nelson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Oct. 2024
What to order: Signature drinks like the Cantaloupe Gibson, made with pisco, cantaloupe, manzanilla sherry, grapefruit bitters and rose water, pull a boozy, yet deliciously refreshing punch.
—Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Sherry vinegar: Sherry is a classic flavor in French onion soup, and sherry vinegar gives the flavor without adding any alcohol.
—Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2024
The mackerel escabeche is layered with sherry, spicy ají limón chile, and meyer lemon, and its plating recalls the afternoon sun moving across the sky.
—Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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Etymology
named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made
Word Origin
It is common to name wines after the part of a country where they are made. The wine called sherry today was first made in a town originally called, in Spanish, Xeres. The English approximation of the Spanish pronunciation was \ˈsher-ēz\, spelled sherris. After a time, people thought that sherris was a plural and so made a singular form, sherry, by cutting off the supposed plural ending. The \sh\ sound symbolized by x in Spanish (later by j) changed to a \ḵ\ or \h\, so that the modern Spanish pronunciation of Jerez is even less like English sherry.
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