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“Sherry is not a drink it’s a way of life! Sherry is all about the fun, the talk the nonsense and all the food that goes with it. It’s a brisk little fortifying punctuation mark to life that the Spanish seem to enjoy any time of day without the slightest notion of guilt. To understand the drink, you have to eat the food that has co-evolved with it in its homeland, foods such as Tapas, seafood and other exciting morsels from the Spanish kitchen!”
Of course, when one talks of Sherry the first thing to recognize is that there are numerous categories or styles of Sherry. A chilled Fino eaten with salty fish is a very different wine to the Pedro Ximenez with its voluptuous rich sweetness that one samples at the end of a meal.
Generally speaking wines are grouped into three general categories depending on the characteristics of the musts and the winemaking and ageing processes that each undergoes:
Dry Sherry Wines– Palomino grape musts ferment completely giving a dry wine. The style varies depending on its ageing and level of fortification.
Fino – ages under the yeasts of flor and remains pale in colour. Tio Pepe, Elegante Fino
