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750ml
Bottle: $25.90 $27.20
12 bottles: $25.84
Resplendent nose of Christmas spices, raisins, figs and tea leaves. Intensely sweet on the palate but very...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $23.90
12 bottles: $23.42
Big, dry, powerful but elegant wine. Very distinct yeasty notes, with layers of caramel, oak and sweet herbs, all...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.40
12 bottles: $23.18
Almost as creamy and refreshing as a Manzanilla, this Fino is focused on mineral notes and vibrant acidity, which...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.10
Luminous amber colours. The aromas are pungent, almondy and persistent. On the palate it is slightly sweet, refined...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.44 $17.50
A pungent, dry and bracing fino, full of iodine, apple and walnut flavors. Light-bodied, with a clean, walnut...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $65.94
12 bottles: $64.62
Natural sweet wine made from Moscatel grapes. It has a dark mahogany colour and a dense and wide texture. Laced with...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $37.94
12 bottles: $37.18
A shiny dark mahogany fruit wine originating from its prolonged oxidative aging process, with distinct, well-rounded,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $48.94
12 bottles: $47.96
There's a richness here offsetting the firm structure, but the iodine and roasted walnut notes shine on the finish....
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White
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Bottle: $37.94
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.12 $17.91
6 bottles: $13.43
This extra fine cream sherry comes exclusively from select vineyards in the -Zona De Jerez Superior-, the worlds...
White
750ml
Bottle: $17.91
6 bottles: $13.43
A pale and delicate light dry Sherry that is light in color. Commonly served cold as an aperitif, many consider this...
White
750ml
Bottle: $79.83
6 bottles: $78.23
Curiously enough, the 1999 Don PX, which has 17% alcohol and 402 grams of sugar, feels lighter and less concentrated...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $82.93 $90.00
The NV Tradicion Amontillado VORS, certainly has the more complex and subtle nose of all these VORS and is on average...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $71.93
This is a new 2017 bottling of the NV Cream VOS, marked as L 1/17, the first bottling of 2017. This is a VOS with an...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
12 bottles: $34.24
When Bodegas Tradición started out, its original portfolio did not include a Fino. This is therefore a very welcome...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $77.88 $80.00
Given the age of the stocks (some more than 45 years old), this wine has amazing fruit presence. While Tradición...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $107.94
This young bodega keeps to its name by releasing Sherries of classic maturity. Extraordinarily complex aromas,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.94 $24.00
The NV Contrabandista is a blend of the style called medium dry that is usually a very commercial category of cheap...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.94 $24.00
I could have chosen Valdespino’s outstanding Inocente Fino with its consistent excellence. Instead I have chosen...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.60 $24.00
As with many other wines from the José Estévez group, there is a special bottling of Valdespino's flagship NV Fino...
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Sherry Spain Andalusia 750ml

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.

Ever since the Phoenicians and Romans brought their knowledge of vine cultivation to Spanish soils, the country's culture has grown alongside wine production, with wine being a vital part of Spanish identity and Spanish traditions. Each region of Spain has a wine quite distinct from the others, and it is produced by smallholders and families as much as it is by large companies and established wineries. From the relatively mild and lush regions of La Rioja to the arid plateaus that surround Madrid, grapes are grown in abundance for the now booming Spanish wine industry, and new laws and regulations have recently been put in place to keep the country's standards high. By combining traditional practices with modern technology, Spanish wineries are continuing to produce distinctive wines of great character, flavor and aroma, with the focus shifting in recent decades to quality over quantity.

Andalusia, in the south of Spain, is surely the quintessential Spanish wine region. Here we find all the color and passion of this ancient country, the streets ringing with flamenco music, and wines being enjoyed with gusto at every pavement cafe. The viticultural history of Andalusia is so old, that nobody really knows when it began - it could have been started by the ancient Greeks, or by the earlier Phoenicians who certainly used the peninsula as a trading post. Whoever got it started certainly did a good job, however, as by the time the Romans moved in, the wine industry was already well established, and it has barely faltered since.

Today, the most famous wines made in Andalusia are surely the Sherries, those beautiful, aromatic fortified wines, which come out of the city of Jerez and which are made from the characterful native Palomino grape. Sherry is not the be all and end all of Andalusian produce, however - the region is also highly appreciated for the sweet dessert wines of Malaga and Montilla Moriles, as well as the beautifully refined dry red and white wines from the region’s other DO (Denomination de Origen), Condado de Huelva which are quickly gaining popularity outside of Spain.