sweet sherry
Cream fortified wine
Sweet sherry is a fortified wine from Spain's Jerez region, with residual sugar that gives it a rich, dessert-like character.
Varieties range from cream sherry to Pedro Ximénez.
Sweet sherry is traditionally served after dinner or used in cooking: The recipe calls for a splash of sweet sherry.
- Pedro XiménezSpanish dessert wine grape
- fortifiedMade more resistant
- Spanish wineVino from Iberia
- dessert wineSweet post-meal libation
- tawnyWarm brownish-yellow hue
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- Sherryfino, amontillado, manzanilla, pale cream, amoroso
- cooking winesmarsala, mirin, dry white, white wine, red wine
sweetness level
sweet sherrydry sherry
Unsweetened fortified Spanish wine
fino · manzanilla · amontillado · bone dry · brut
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