Sherry isn’t just for Grandma anymore. Most Americans think of sherry as a sweet cooking wine, but food writer Joe Ray wants to change your drinking habits.
Sherry is a wine apart: The just-harvested grapes go through the exotic solera aging and blending system where, bit by bit, wines are cycled through barrels of increasingly older wines. By law, the process has to last at least three years, but in many cases, the final product is a blend with a decades-old median age. It creates a wine of beguiling complexity, and an amazing value.
I beseech you to get on the sherry train.
