Hints and tips:
...Tangy, dry, pungent and great value. £6.50 a half Tesco Lustau, Torre del Oro Palo Cortado NV Sherry (19%), Dry Oloroso NV Sherry (20%) and Don Gaspar Amontillado NV Sherry (18.5%)Ridiculous value for these...
From champagne to sherry, here are our recommendations for the best buys of the festive season
...By the 1900s, recipes called for sponge, sherry and citrus syllabub....
...“There was cause for merriment as prices of wine, port and sherry fell on the month,” she added....
...for butter, sherry for trifle....
...A fino or manzanilla sherry comes into its own when we desperately need to revive our appetite....
...The writer is a science commentator The post-Christmas period is often a time for weighing things up, whether taking stock at the end of the year or preparing for the one ahead....
...It’s the Christmas season. Katie Martin. . . the Christmas sherry. So the market is doing some weird stuff, some stuff that makes sense and some stuff that makes less sense....
...Liquid Christmas cake?...
...My “wines for drinking now” section evolves rapidly but for whites usually involves Picpoul de Pinet, vinho verde, English Chardonnay and manzanilla sherry....
...Finlan is bullish about current sales and reports a record Christmas last year. But, he says, “Every pound has had to be fought for....
...For Christmas it’s created a three-pack of minis – a Gingerbread Old Fashioned, a Mince Pie Negroni and a remarkably good Xmas Pudding Sour made with rum, PX sherry, citrus and house-made spiced cordial...
...And why is sherry still almost given away? Wine lists are full of apparent pricing anomalies, especially those that specialise in famous names....
...It tastes of liquid Christmas pudding with walnut notes. Really fresh and clean. Very sweet. Serve with cheese?...
...Sherry is the most obvious one by a mile. The supermarkets sell inexpensive, really good sherries. That is the one wine I would buy in a supermarket. 81. What wine is so overrated as to be bad value?...
...Seven years on, the sensory distinctions are profound: it’s chalk and cheese, if chalk tasted of vanilla and tropical fruit, and cheese of dates and Christmas pudding....
...It is around the same strength as port or sherry....
...Digestifs such as PX sherry, vintage port, or muscat make wonderful partners....
...Scott’s Restaurant’s Starstruck Christmas A shimmering terrace bedecked with a shooting-star theme....
...Bruegel the Elder’s masterpiece “The Hunters in the Snow”, a 16th-century aerial view of a Dutch village, might seem an odd choice to illustrate a story about a small parish in the Republic of Ireland during Christmas...
...And how about “hot chestnuts and prunes” after Christmas dinner? Cooked chestnuts soaked with prunes, cinnamon, sugar, lemon juice and a “wineglassful of sherry” and served hot “in a silver dish”?...
...I could well imagine this accompanying the sweet tanginess of Christmas pudding....
...It won’t have escaped your notice that Christmas party season will soon be upon us. Perhaps you’ve had invitations already? How do you feel about that? Are we to be Scrooges or Fezziwigs?...
...Sykes is also responsible for buying sherry and reports that sales were up by 24 per cent last year. Sherry fans tend to be either decidedly mature or among the younger, more trend-conscious members....
...And they look as good as they taste — one for the home bar, and also the Christmas stocking....
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