How do you drink sherry?

Answer 1

sherry is a white wine and the same rules apply when it comes to serving. A fino tastes much better if it has been chilled, but don't freeze them. Sherries with more body need only to be slightly chilled and the lovely dessert sherries are best served at room temperature. There is no need to warm any type of sherry.

There is a huge array of wine glasses on the market today. The Austrian glassmaker Riedel has a glass for every grape variety. Riedel has been known for over four decades for designing the most finely tuned instruments for every level of wine sophistication as well, today, as the finest wine glasses in all price categories. While a glass cannot alter a fine wine or spirit, it can and does dramatically alter our perception of it.

My ideal sherry glass is made by Riedel. It is a sherry copita from his hand blown Sommeliers range. It's a superb (although expensive) glass; I don't drink my sherry out of anything else. I highly recommend it.

One of the many beautiful things about sherry is its deep penetrating fragrance that prepares the palate to receive the magical flavour of the wine. Such a wine requires a big glass with plenty of room for the full aroma to gather in it. The ghastly, horrible and totally unsuitable 'sherry schooner' that you get in pubs and other establishments, should be thrown away. Never, ever drink sherry out of these glasses - even cream sherry!

Instead, if you do not have a copita, a tulip shaped wine glass filled halfway is very good.

Finos and Manzanillas are light and delicate. They deteriorate once they have left the secure surroundings of the solera. It is wise therefore to drink these as soon as they are bottled. Finos that are left in the bottle after six months became course, oxidised and lose their interest. Always look out for the Lot code on the back labels. The Lot codes will tell you when the sherry was bottled. Although some Bodegas have their own complicated system of lot codes, the majority will use the standard system. It will appear something like this: L9112.

The 'L' stands for lot code. The '9' signifies the year, ie 1999, the '112' the day. So a sherry with a lot code of L9112 would have been bottled on the 112th day of 1999. So always go for the earliest bottlings.

Light amontillado's also deteriorate, but at a much slower rate. An unsweetened oloroso remains unharmed for several years. A top-notch amontillado, palo cortado and oloroso can develop in bottle given time. Even a fine dessert oloroso becomes absolutely dry and magnificent after 50 or 60 years!

If you can, drink finos at one sitting. As mentioned above, they don't keep very well. I never have a trouble finishing a bottle at one sitting, but if you can't (more practice required one thinks!) buy finos in half bottles or decant half the full bottle into a clean half bottle. You may get away with keeping a fino for anything up to 3 days, if you must (but always in the fridge). I find this rarely happens as a good sherry seldom, if ever, gets the chance to last for more then a day!

The same rule applies to other sherries providing they are completely dry. Oxidation completely spoils them. The more body or sweetness a wine has, the longer it will last.

Unlike table wines, you may store sherry in an upright position. The alcohol tends to attack the cork in strong wines, which then crumble and leak and spoilage occurs. However, sherries that can be kept for long periods should be bottled with a long cork and stored horizontally, so the cork doesn't dry out and cease being airtight.

There is a saying in Jerez: “There are only two kinds of sherry, the good and the better”.

Answer 2

It's usually served before the meal, as an appetiser (aperitif, in some countries), with pre-meal nibbles; serve chilled; best in proper sherry glasses, which hold about a quarter of what you'd consider to be a reasonable glass of wine (most sherries are about twice as alcoholic as wine). In some posh establishments it's also served as an accompaniment to soup.

Comes in variations of sweetness, from very dry to sticky sweet, and the general rule is that the darker the sweeter (with the exception of 'pale cream' sherries, which are pale but sweet). A good sherry is gorgeous, and a cheap one is dreadful - but have fun trying!

You might also like to experiment with Madeira - a drink on similar lines but from a different part of the world - and white port, which is pretty hard to find but makes a lovely and unusual aperitif.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Put the bottle to your lip and tilt the bottom towards the ceiling, drink it down, down, down, til you get that crazy feeling.

Answer 7

Put the glass to your mouth, open your mouth, tilt the glas towards you, suck...pretty simple, not unlike water.

Answer 8

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