Jerez Flashcards
What is En Rama Sherry?
En Rama Sherry is Sherry that is unfiltered and unfined, or minimally filtered.
What are the Fino style Sherrys?
Fino, Puerto Fino, Manzanilla and Pale Cream are the Fino Style Sherrys.
What are the Oloroso style Sherrys?
The Oloroso style Sherrys are Oloroso and Cream Sherry.
What are the hybrid style Sherrys?
The hybrid style Sherrys are Amontillado and Palo Cortado.
Where is Montilla-Moriles and what wine is made there?
Montilla-Moriles DO is located to the east of Jerez, and is known for rich desert wines made from Pedro Ximenez. A small amount of dry still wines from very ripe Moscatel grapes is also made.
What is a Copita?
A tulip-shaped glass traditionally used for Sherry in Spain.
What is Gonzalez Byass?
The largest producer of Sherry, still run by the family that founded the house.
What was likely the first wine using fortification as an everyday technique?
Sherry.
What did the English originally call Sherry?
Sherris Sack.
In the middle of the 19th century, what percentage of wine drunk in Britain was Sherry?
43%.
When did most Britons drink Sherry?
At Christmas.
