Sherry COPY COPY Flashcards
What is the main city of Sherry?
Jerez de la Frontera
What are the two biggest Sherry export markets?
The Netherlands and Great Britain
What is “sherry”?
The English corruption of the word Jerez
What is Xeres?
The french counterpart for Sherry
Who is responsible for the paper seals on the sherry bottles?
Consejo Regulador
What are the 3 centers for sherry maturation?
Jerez de la Frontera
Sanlucar de Barrameda
Puerto de Santa Maria
What is fino?
A dry sherry generally from Palomino grapes from albariza soil, tank fermented, under the blanket of flor, which protects it from oxidation.
What is the min/max alcohol for fino sherry?
15-17%
What is Manzanilla?
A fino style made in Sanlucar de Barrameda. They tend to be the lightest of sherries.
What is Amontillado?
A sherry that sees some oxidation due to the natural breaking of the flor. Barrel aged.
What is the min/max alcohol for Amontillado?
16-22%
What is Oloroso?
Sherry of varying style that is made from the deliberate breakup of the flor. Barrel aged.
What is the min/maxc alcohol for Oloroso?
17-22%
What is Palo Cortado?
A style of sherry that starts toward amontillado/fino, with natural flor breakup, but takes on a richness like Oloroso.
What is a cream/px?
Sweet sherries of sun dried grapes.
What is often used to protect the grapes from bacterial contamination?
sulfur dioxide
At what percent alcohol with PX and Moscatel musts be stopped?
Usually around 10%
What size barrel is usually used?
American 600 liter oak
What is the name for tiers in a solera?
Criadera
What’s the name for the extraction of a fraction of wine from the solera?
Saca
What is the maximum that can be taken out of a barrel?
35%
Explain the movement of wine in a solera.
First, the base wine stays on flor yeast for 1-2 years. Cask selections are made and transferred to the nursery,
Barrels in the top row are topped up with wines from the nursery.
Wine gets transferred down, row by row, to top up lower barrels, until they reach the bottom level.
Wines are gradually removed from bottom rows to be bottled, though the barrels are never completely emptied.