Winemaker Notes
#81 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Best Buys of 2018
Light golden in color, this Sherry has the fresh aroma of the sea which influences its aging. A slight nuttiness and briny quality give it depth and complexity. It is the perfect aperitif as well as accompaniment to all types of seafood and shellfish, especially sushi; olive; fried foods such as calamari and difficult to match vinegar based foods.
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine's precocious nose includes nutty stone fruit and talcum powder aromas. Its full yet fresh palate is rich, with salted dried apple and peanut flavors. It finishes on a base note of salted nuts.
Sherry is a fortified wine that comes in many styles from dry to sweet. True Sherry can only be made in Andalucía, Spain where the soil and unique seasonal changes give a particular character to its wines. The process of production—not really the grape—determine the type, though certain types are reserved for certain grapes. Palomino is responsible for most dry styles; Pedro Ximénez and Muscat of Alexandria are used for blending or for sweet styles.
Known more formally as Jerez de la Frontera, Jerez is a city in Andalucía in southwest Spain and the center of the Jerez region and sherry production. Sherry is a mere English corruption of the term Jerez, while in French, Jerez is written, Xérès. Manzanilla is the freshest style of sherry, naturally derived from the seaside town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda.