Crossword clues for sherry
sherry
- Cooking wine
- Spanish dessert wine
- Popular apéritif
- Amontillado, e.g
- Wine from the Jerez region of Spain
- The man who came to dinner
- Spanish liquor
- Spanish aperitif
- Port relative
- Oloroso or amontillado?
- Frankie Valli smash
- Four Seasons song
- Fortified fare
- Fortified "cream" wine
- First hit for The 4 Seasons
- Amontillado, for one
- Amontillado or manzanilla
- 1962 hit by The Four Seasons
- 1962 #1 hit by the 4 Seasons
- Jerez product
- After-dinner wine
- Wine of the palomino grape
- Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere
- Usually drunk as an aperitif
- Open-house drink
- Fino is one
- Mistake tucking into short alcoholic drink
- Oloroso, say
- Alcoholic drink from the woman beginning to renationalise railway
- Wine from Spain's Jerez region, drunk as an aperitif
- Wander into quiet yard - it's fortified
- Something human in retiring for a drink
- A wine to be wrong to be diffident about
- Throw around stray alcoholic drink
- Fortified wine originally from Spain
- Spanish wine
- Spanish drink
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sherry \Sher"ry\, n. [So called from Xeres, a Spanish town near Cadiz, x in Spanish having been formerly pronounced like sh in English.] A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of white wine, c.1600, mistaken singular from sherris (1530s), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres "(wine from) Xeres," modern Jerez (Roman (urbs) Caesaris) in Spain, near the port of Cadiz, where the wine was made.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A fortified wine produced in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerez%20de%20la%20Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere. 2 A variety of sherry. 3 A glass of sherry.
WordNet
n. dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif
Wikipedia
"Sherry" is a song written by Bob Gaudio and recorded by The Four Seasons.
Sherry is a type of wine.
Sherry may also refer to:
Sherry is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Sherry (, or ) is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain. Sherry is produced in a variety of styles made primarily from the Palomino grape, ranging from light versions similar to white table wines, such as Manzanilla and Fino, to darker and heavier versions that have been allowed to oxidise as they age in barrel, such as Amontillado and Oloroso. Sweet dessert wines are also made from Pedro Ximenez or Moscatel grapes, and are sometimes blended with Palomino-based Sherries.
The word "Sherry" is an anglicisation of Xeres (Jerez). Sherry was previously known as sack, from the Spanish saca, meaning "extraction" from the solera. In Europe, "Sherry" has protected designation of origin status, and under Spanish law, all wine labelled as "Sherry" must legally come from the Sherry Triangle, an area in the province of Cádiz between Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and El Puerto de Santa María. In 1933 the Jerez Denominación de Origen was the first Spanish denominación to be officially recognised in this way, officially named D.O. Jerez-Xeres-Sherry and sharing the same governing council as D.O. Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
After fermentation is complete, the base wines are fortified with grape spirit in order to increase their final alcohol content. Wines classified as suitable for aging as Fino and Manzanilla are fortified until they reach a total alcohol content of 15.5 per cent by volume. As they age in barrel, they develop a layer of flor—a yeast-like growth that helps protect the wine from excessive oxidation. Those wines that are classified to undergo aging as Oloroso are fortified to reach an alcohol content of at least 17 per cent. They do not develop flor and so oxidise slightly as they age, giving them a darker colour. Because the fortification takes place after fermentation, most sherries are initially dry, with any sweetness being added later. In contrast, port wine is fortified halfway through its fermentation, which stops the process so that not all of the sugar is turned into alcohol.
Wines from different years are aged and blended using a solera system before bottling, so that bottles of sherry will not usually carry a specific vintage year and can contain a small proportion of very old wine. Sherry is regarded by many wine writers as "underappreciated" and a "neglected wine treasure".
Usage examples of "sherry".
The nurse with the sherry glass in her hand, quick as a cat, flung the contents in my face at the same instant as bullen hit cerdan.
Dr Van Minn en, who had disappeared soon after tea to take his evening surgery, came back in time to dispense an excellent sherry from a beautiful decanter into crystal glasses.
Sherry could not quite shake the sense that he had been called up to explain some misdeed of his own.
Yakov Kanter, Andras Kovacs, David Lee, Megan McEwen, Nari Mistry, Hasan Padamsee, Ronen Plesser, Massimo Poratti, Fred Sherry, Lars Straeter, Steven Strogatz, Andrew Strominger, Henry Tye, Cumrun Vafa, and Gabriele Veneziano.
The little shops, the wine shops with their bay windows of small leaded glass, and the crusty opulence of the bottles of old port and sherry and the burgundies, the mellow homely warmth and quietness of the interior, the tailor shops, the tobacco shops with their selected grades of fine tobacco stored in ancient crocks, the little bell that tinkled thinly as you went in from the street, the decorous, courteous, yet suavely good-natured proprietor behind the counter, who had the ruddy cheeks, the flowing brown moustache and the wing-collar of the shopkeeper of solid substance, and who would hold the crock below your nose to let you smell the moist fragrance of a rare tobacco before you bought, and would offer you one of his best cigarettes before you left--all of this gave somehow to the simplest acts of life and business a ritualistic warmth and sanctity, and made you feel wealthy and secure.
The list of drinks given in the journal before me includes punch, cider, strong beer, porter, grog, madeira, port, claret, sherry, toddy, sangaree, and syllabub.
Thanks, too, to my oldest and closest friend, Peter Marshall, with whom I have weathered many storms, and to Rob Gardner, Joseph and Sherry Jahoda, Roel Oostra, Joseph and Laura Schor, Niven Sinclair, Colin Skinner and Clem Vallance, all of whom gave me good advice.
He stood astride the hearthstones, warming his backside, leafing the manuscript pages, conscious of me drinking my sherry much too fast, shutting my eyes each time he let a page drop and flutter to the carpet.
Sherry commented, walking to Silvester and lightly slapping his cheeks.
Goldman led their column, followed by Watson, Silvester, Sherry, and himself.
She lifted a decanter of clear liquid and filled two sherry glasses, then she arranged herself on a small chaise longue, taking up all the space in an unprovocative way that denied the possibility of his joining her on it.
In the meanwhile there was a glass of sherry to drink while she made a slow-moving conversation with one of the cousins, and then supper, sitting between Uncle Tom and the other cousin--an elaborate meal, with Mrs Parsons explaining in a die-away voice just how long it had taken her to shop for each item they ate, and the unsparing efforts made to offer some of her most cherished recipes to her guests.
Carrie had managed to secure a year-long contract with a wine merchants in Bermondsey, which entailed collecting casks of sherry and pipes of port from the wharves in Tooley Street and making an occasional journey to the coopers in Stepney.
She was already familiar with his satirical poems and Sherry gave her a thumbnail sketch that whetted her appetite.
Lined with spotless linen, and covered with small sidedishes, whence an appetising odour at once gamy and piquant seemed to emanate, and bearing, moreover, a small bottle of Lafitte, and a decanter of sherry that looked like a liquid topaz, the tray reconciled Mr.