plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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Of course, there's parsley, a little sherry or wine, and mushrooms for some extra heartiness.
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Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
Cask type can significantly influence flavor: sherry casks add fruitiness, port casks bring a hint of sweetness, and American oak tends to highlight vanilla and caramel notes.
—Emily Price, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
It’s then finished in three different types of barrels—first-fill amontillado sherry, tokaji (a sweet Hungarian wine), and moscatel (a sweet fortified wine).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2024
Mulled Wine Sour Ingredients 15 ml Rye whiskey 15 ml Pedro Ximenez sherry
15 ml Madeira
15 ml sweet vermouth
20 ml orange acid (Mix 1 liter of fresh orange juice with 25 grams citric acid and 15 grams malic acid.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
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Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
Cask type can significantly influence flavor: sherry casks add fruitiness, port casks bring a hint of sweetness, and American oak tends to highlight vanilla and caramel notes.
—Emily Price, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
It’s then finished in three different types of barrels—first-fill amontillado sherry, tokaji (a sweet Hungarian wine), and moscatel (a sweet fortified wine).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2024
Mulled Wine Sour Ingredients 15 ml Rye whiskey 15 ml Pedro Ximenez sherry
15 ml Madeira
15 ml sweet vermouth
20 ml orange acid (Mix 1 liter of fresh orange juice with 25 grams citric acid and 15 grams malic acid.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 29 Dec. 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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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