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  • With a little know-how, sherry's lowly position in the financial wine league means that for around €20, one can buy a bottle of wonderful copper-colored liquid packed with interesting hazelnutty notes and daubs of vanilla flavors, dried wood and delicious richness.

    Sherry's Joyous Value Will Lyons 2011

  • But excluding sweet, cream sherry which is actually made by blending different styles of sherry principally for the export market, what really appeals is sherry's dryness, which assaults the midpoint of the tongue, creating juices that whet the appetite.

    Sherry's Joyous Value Will Lyons 2011

  • Hmmm - none of the brandy in my cupboard is from Cognac, and the sherry's not from Amontillado, and there's no basement to look in for another cask of it, but cheers to him anyway!

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • I got a bottle of champagne the first time and then, the very last prize, my number was drawn again - but as it was a bottle of cream sherry, I declined the prize and had them draw someone else - cream sherry's not my favourite, and as I'd already won once, it didn't seem like much of a hardship.

    Region Two Area Day katelnorth 2007

  • I got a bottle of champagne the first time and then, the very last prize, my number was drawn again - but as it was a bottle of cream sherry, I declined the prize and had them draw someone else - cream sherry's not my favourite, and as I'd already won once, it didn't seem like much of a hardship.

    Archive 2007-10-01 katelnorth 2007

  • And if, after that, you still want to kick around the semiotics of the thing, the sherry's on me.

    Bill Barol: Friday Night Lights: Best Drama on TV Returns, and New York Times Throws it a Celebratory English Department Cocktail Party 2008

  • The sherry's old, and the pastry melts in your mouth.

    Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time Wilkie Collins 1856

  • It clocked in at about 12% alcohol, compared to sherry's usual 15% to

    Serious Eats Kara Newman 2010

  • Some rums, like the Santa Teresa 1796, use something akin to sherry's solera system, mixing rums of many different years over time until, theoretically, a complex multi-year blend is achieved.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • The mince pies are baking, the sherry's uncorked, the cake's half eaten and the elves are sobering up.

    British Blogs 2009

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