plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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Meanwhile, aperitif fans will certainly recognize Cádiz, Andalusia, home to some of the world's best sherry.
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Lauren David, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
Matured for a minimum of six years in ex-bourbon and new European oak barrels, then finished in Spanish sherry casks for at least six months, Ploughman’s Single Malt highlights aromas including red fruit jam, syrup and vanilla and tastes like cherries, white pepper and green apple.
—John Kell, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Last spring, Bushmills released a 46-year-old single malt aged in a pair of sherry casks that was the oldest Irish single malt bottled to date (there have been older pot still whiskeys).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2025
Fresh sides include garlic fingerling potatoes, Brussels sprouts with sherry and honey and seasonal local vegetables.
—Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2025
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Lauren David, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
Matured for a minimum of six years in ex-bourbon and new European oak barrels, then finished in Spanish sherry casks for at least six months, Ploughman’s Single Malt highlights aromas including red fruit jam, syrup and vanilla and tastes like cherries, white pepper and green apple.
—John Kell, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Last spring, Bushmills released a 46-year-old single malt aged in a pair of sherry casks that was the oldest Irish single malt bottled to date (there have been older pot still whiskeys).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2025
Fresh sides include garlic fingerling potatoes, Brussels sprouts with sherry and honey and seasonal local vegetables.
—Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 18 Sep. 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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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