plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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The jelly is made from pheasant and rabbit—both invasive species—stewed with sherry and herbs.
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Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
The core Yamazaki lineup consists of expressions aged for 12, 18, and 25 years—but these are all matured in a variety of different types of casks that are blended together, including bourbon, sherry, and mizunara (only a small percentage, however).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
Next on the tasting table should be the Jura’s hallmark, vin jaune, aged like sherry under a voile (film) of yeast.
—Eleanor Aldridge, AFAR Media, 31 July 2025
Most of the whisky made at the distillery is aged in sherry casks, but this new single malt was aged mostly in bourbon barrels along with a small amount that spent time in virgin oak.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 July 2025
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Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
The core Yamazaki lineup consists of expressions aged for 12, 18, and 25 years—but these are all matured in a variety of different types of casks that are blended together, including bourbon, sherry, and mizunara (only a small percentage, however).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
Next on the tasting table should be the Jura’s hallmark, vin jaune, aged like sherry under a voile (film) of yeast.
—Eleanor Aldridge, AFAR Media, 31 July 2025
Most of the whisky made at the distillery is aged in sherry casks, but this new single malt was aged mostly in bourbon barrels along with a small amount that spent time in virgin oak.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for sherry
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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