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...
...Coined “Shrooms and Sherry”, our grown-up drink is a heady savoury combination of fig liqueur, a porcino amontillado sherry and Hine, a cognac....
...Howth has a Special Amenity Area Order to preserve the local heathland, woods, cliffs and shingle beaches....
...The restaurant is spread across two rooms, one dominated by a busy tapas counter and the other by an achingly cool cocktail bar, although I’m usually tempted by a humble glass of sherry....
...Bazaar uses explicitly Spanish, not just Latin American, overtones: a humble pan con tomate is offered, which is superbly well executed, and a signature jamón is carved at the table, paired with Spanish sherries...
...Some of the bank-ish feel is still intact in the lavish entrance hall, which during our stay was constantly abuzz with bellboys wheeling piles of luxury luggage to the lift, and guests drinking sherry and...
...It explores the raw beauty of the natural world, incorporating natural materials, rattan, wood, butterfly wings, shells and pebbles from a Greek beach....
...Behind it is a bar with several old barrels, lines of glasses and wine bottles and a blackboard showcasing ports, Madeiras and sherries....
...“And I remember Spain,” wrote the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, the “tripper” in the rain in 1938 recalling “sherry, shellfish, omelettes . . . fretted stone the Moor/Had chiselled for effects of sun and shadow...
...It’s all about the wood. This fundamental is hammered home on my last evening, when the Flying Dutchman is visited by Georgie Crawford....
...Much drier than Harveys 12-year-old Cream Sherry and with more “rancio” (the nutty, buttery aroma of wines long-aged in wood). An amazing amount of pleasure for less than a tenner....
...Rooms have a kind of Scandi-chic feel, with light wood floors, stylish furniture and tones of terracotta, blue and grey....
...I particularly enjoyed the Yokohama Rose, a take on a Bamboo (one of the first Japanese cocktails, invented in 1890 in Yokohama), made with dry sherry, sakura vermouth and ginger bitters Website; Directions...
...Time has given it a patina of gently smoky, aromatic woods, balsamic notes, dried fruits and sun-faded pot-pourri....
...Even as I steered the car along cobbled streets of whitewashed town houses with ironwork balconies, a whiff of ancient barrels and dark musty cellars, of wood and alcohol, came in through the open window...
...Just the job, in fact.£11.99 for 50cl (usually £13.99) Waitrose, £14.18 Master of Malt Lustau, Murillo Pedro Ximénez Sherry 17% This very sweet sherry is too interesting to use simply as something to pour...
...With its wood panelling, bottle-green booths and low lighting, it has a moody vibe similar to its stateside sibling – but with the addition of a vast array of agave spirits....
...“Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Russian parties, Circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St John’s Wood...
...Underlining the building’s modernist-inspired, wood-clad form is a strict adherence to sustainability and a desire to blend in with the landscape....
...A small team of amateur tasters that I assembled was unimpressed by Seven Seals’ Sherry Wood Finish single malt (“tastes young”, said one Macallan fan), preferring the Swiss company’s Peated Double Wood...
...Here and there, the Lighthouse makes reference to the old distillery: there are details fashioned from reclaimed stone and slate, and wall panels embedded with wood from Glenmorangie casks....
...The best-selling Palo Santo Gimlet is spiked with aromatic palo santo wood from Peru and a splash of fino sherry, while a Margarita comes scented with bergamot....
...Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT, sees the metaverse as another way that people will lose their connection to their environment and communities....
...American oak is used for ageing sherry and various spirits but French oak has been the né plus ultra for wine producers — not least because the French government has been managing extensive forests carefully...
...I would love to go back and sleep out at night in the woods there. It’s one of the most beautiful parks in Europe but not many people know about it....
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