plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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The whisky presents rich sherry cask aromas on the nose, featuring stewed and dried fruits, chocolate, and toasted nuts.
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
The Glen Grant 30-Year-Old was matured in a combination of American oak ex-bourbon barrels and Oloroso sherry casks before being married together and bottled with natural color and no chill filtration at 48 percent ABV.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 May 2025
Carnivores, meanwhile, can carve into filets, New York strips and ribeyes with optional Bearnaise sauce, black truffle butter and bleu cheese crust, along with Berkshire pork in a sherry reduction and double-bone lamb chops in roasted garlic-thyme jus.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2025
Amid the American Prohibition-era design, bartenders mix sophisticated original drinks like the Consulate (Venezuelan rum, Italian vermouth, Amontillado sherry, apricot bitters; €15).
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
The Glen Grant 30-Year-Old was matured in a combination of American oak ex-bourbon barrels and Oloroso sherry casks before being married together and bottled with natural color and no chill filtration at 48 percent ABV.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 May 2025
Carnivores, meanwhile, can carve into filets, New York strips and ribeyes with optional Bearnaise sauce, black truffle butter and bleu cheese crust, along with Berkshire pork in a sherry reduction and double-bone lamb chops in roasted garlic-thyme jus.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2025
Amid the American Prohibition-era design, bartenders mix sophisticated original drinks like the Consulate (Venezuelan rum, Italian vermouth, Amontillado sherry, apricot bitters; €15).
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 13 Jun. 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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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