I've just discovered Sherry...

[TooWicked]

...after having to buy a bottle for a recipe I'm making.

I've only ever seen it being drank by Emily Bishop on Coronation Street years ago. I poured myself a small glass to try, and it's bloody lovely.

Does anyone else like a Sherry? This is a basic Tesco one, I'm guessing the more expensive ones are even nicer?

I love a sherry
I'm embracing being an, ahem, older woman by having a small sherry as a pick me up
I prefer pale

I drink it at room temperature
Ginger wine is nice too

@PlanetNormal

I absolutely love Sherry. Sitting outside a bar in Cadiz in the evening with a glass of chilled, dry Manzanilla and some freshly made tortillas de camarones is my idea of heaven.

Mine too

Oooh…Love a sherry. So does my fella, who’s a biker, welder, mechanic blokey bloke. He loves the stuff, it’s not just for Emily Bishop 😁 ha ha!

I only drink it twice a year - when decorating the Christmas tree and on Christmas morning with my mum. I do like it but it has such strong associations I'm not sure I could do it any other time.

I bloody love a sherry, it's the taste of Christmas for me. I'm always a bit shy ordering sherry in a pub but I love it.

I love it. Was gutted when mine never turned up for my Asda Xmas shop.

I went round the lustau bodega in jerez. Great afternoon. Drank all sorts of sherry on that trip to the sherry 'triangle'.

My fave is Amontillado.

I have made my way through the 50cl medium dry taste the difference from sainsburys one night this Christmas.

Really fancy a sherry now but I'm not at home and the bottle of port I bought with me is too far away to fetch. Bah!

Absolutely love sherry!

Ooh I love a sherry, not had one for ages. Thanks for the reminder OP

I've always liked a sherry. By coincidence I was saying to DH earlier this evening that I want to get a little sherry glass, like my grandmother used to use. Definitely time to scout the charity shops after New Year.

@absolutelynotfabulous

Sherry has always been a favourite tipple of mine.i discovered it age 12 (my parents were liberal about booze). Nothing quite so Christmassy as a schooner of sherry, sweeter the better, and a large cigar at Christmas.

Gives me the munchies something terrible though.

I remember years ago my dad's elderly uncle was in hospital (or it may have been when he was in a care home.) The staff asked my dad if he could bring a bottle of sherry in for my uncle. He wasn't eating enough and they said a glass before a meal would give him an appetite.

I asked people for sherry for Christmas because I love it so much. I got three bottles so my stash is very healthy now.

I've got some sherry glasses from my nan from the 50s. Going to have to start asking for bottles of it for presents!

thisplace I know exactly what you mean about ordering in a pub. Let’s go together and I may also even order a port and lemon !!

I like chilled dry Sherry (la Gitana for preference) with Gouda cheese and spicy salami on hot summer evenings.

My nanny loved Sherry (a little too much) it didn’t occur to me it was strange her drinking sherry on Sunday morning while cooking the roast (which we had at 1)

I used to have Ribena in our Sherry glasses (I still prefer Ribena)

Its not quite as awful as port

I love a sherry.

I love a Sherry too, but only at Christmas. Sipping on a glass or two while cooking Christmas dinner is a tradition.

It also goes far better with Cheese and Biscuits than wine does. And we eat a lot of cheese and biscuits over the Christmas season.

I've got probably a couple of glasses left in the bottle and will be using it to toast in the New Year tomorrow night.

Then we're doing dry January

I love a sherry! You’ve just reminded me I’ve not had one this year yet.

For a quick & delicious pudding pour a couple of spoons of sweet sherry such as Gonzales Byass Nectar over naice vanilla ice-cream, serve with little almond biscuits.

Take a bottle of dry sherry such as a fino or manzanilla, push in 5 or 6 dried chilli peppers and recork, ( you may need to have a little glass to make space in the bottle).
Leave for two or three weeks. Use the spicy sherry instead of vodka in Bloody Marys.

Now is a good time to shop for sherry as it’s often reduced just after Christmas.

Can someone tell about the difference types of sherry - I ended up buying a supermarket own brand as I wasn’t sure what to buy.

I also don’t really know anything about Sherry other than loving a very cold ‘light’ ‘dry’ Sherry often in Spain. Don’t remember any labels etc. Going to Spanish/North African restaurant for lunch in a bit with a great wine list. I shall photo and also order and sample !! I may even report back after a lie down.

In winter I always have a bottle of Amontillado (medium sherry) on the go. It sits in a ship’s decanter - inherited from my DF - on the sideboard.

I love it.

Wouldn’t want it in warm weather though - that’s G&T time.

Wow I wanna try it now! Which brand is nice?