oloroso

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DeChellis's menu boasts an expansive selection of tapas, such as Potted Duckling and Pork with oloroso sherry wine and toasted bread ($11), and

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  • DeChellis's menu boasts an expansive selection of tapas, such as Potted Duckling and Pork with oloroso sherry wine and toasted bread ($11), and —  Gothamist
  • My favorite sensibly-priced single malt was Bowmore Darkest, (aged in oloroso sherry casks) which didn't display its age, but I'm guessing it was around 12 years old. —  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
  • Thanks, Sean!), with Miller's gin, oloroso sherry, lemon, simple syrup and champagne. —  Jeffrey Morgenthaler
 

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  1. Italian, fragrant, from Late Latin *olōrōsus, variant of odōrōsus, from Latin odor, odōr-, odor.
 

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