plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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Normally, after used to season barrels the sherry is either distilled or turned into another product like sherry vinegar.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025
The whiskey’s name nods to Moore’s belief in pursuing big ideas boldly, and the distillery has built a reputation for cask experimentation, blending bourbon, sherry, and cuvée casks to craft a distinctly Virginian style of single malt.
—Emily Price, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Fresh sides include garlic fingerling potatoes, Brussels sprouts with sherry and honey and seasonal local vegetables.
—Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2025
My writing apparatus for the day would be a large notepad, Mono Graph mechanical pencil, coffee, mint tea, fino sherry, and later on, a martini (gin, with one olive).
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2025
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025
The whiskey’s name nods to Moore’s belief in pursuing big ideas boldly, and the distillery has built a reputation for cask experimentation, blending bourbon, sherry, and cuvée casks to craft a distinctly Virginian style of single malt.
—Emily Price, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Fresh sides include garlic fingerling potatoes, Brussels sprouts with sherry and honey and seasonal local vegetables.
—Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2025
My writing apparatus for the day would be a large notepad, Mono Graph mechanical pencil, coffee, mint tea, fino sherry, and later on, a martini (gin, with one olive).
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 22 Aug. 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 10 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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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