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750ml
Bottle: $11.31 $12.57
12 bottles: $9.51
With a special selection of high-quality, sweet, and smooth dessert wines, Taylor is great for cooking or simply...
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1.5Ltr
Bottle: $22.61 $23.80
6 bottles: $14.73
Deep amber in hue, Taylor Cream Sherry is a full bodied dessert wine with a medley of sweet and nutty flavors. This...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $59.94
A fleshy, sapid red marked by a mix of plum, cherry and earth flavors, plus a saline component. This offers intensity...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
The nose is both warm and astringent, with notes of bricks, soil, herbs, cherries and bright red cranberries and...
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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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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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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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Sale
750ml
Bottle: $34.94 $36.00
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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Sale
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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750ml
Bottle: $107.94
This young bodega keeps to its name by releasing Sherries of classic maturity. Extraordinarily complex aromas,...
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750ml
Bottle: $84.00
Supremely thick, with a syrupy feel to the buckwheat, toasted brown bread, warm date and molten chocolate notes. Not...
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Rapid Ship
750ml
Bottle: $21.00 $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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Sale
750ml
Bottle: $23.04 $25.60
I could have chosen Valdespino’s outstanding Inocente Fino with its consistent excellence. Instead I have chosen...
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500ml
Bottle: $163.94
The NV Amontillado Coliseo VORS, is an extremely old (much older than the 30 years certified by the VORS...
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750ml
Bottle: $18.94 $20.80
The rum raisin, date and burnt orange peel notes are nicely melded, with fruitcake and licorice root accents, all...
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90
Sale
500ml
Bottle: $40.25 $42.00
Anise, date, orange bitters and toffee notes are nicely melded together, with a slightly sweet edge that carries the...
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Sale
375ml
Bottle: $13.44 $15.00
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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Sale
750ml
Bottle: $23.04 $25.60
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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Sale
375ml
Bottle: $11.94 $13.00
About five to six years old, from La Guita bodega. Bright astringency and vivid intensity, with a long, refreshing...
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500ml
Bottle: $44.94
The NV Don Gonzalo Oloroso 20 Anos VOS, produced with Palomino grapes from the Carrascal vineyards, is fermented in...
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Mencia Mencia Sherry Vermentino Nero

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.