plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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This non-age-statement whisky is matured in a combination of sherry, bourbon, and port casks.
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
The technique has been around since the advent of cocktail culture: An article in Punch cites several sources detailing its inception in Spain, focused at first as a way to chill wine and sherry, and references in literature to thrown cocktails (not just the martini) that date to the mid-1800s.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Rieger’s Straight Rye Whiskey is the foundation, while fino sherry adds a dry, nutty complexity.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
It was aged in just two Oloroso sherry butts from the Antonio Paez Lobato Cooperage in Jerez, Spain, which were stored in warehouse eight.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2025
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
The technique has been around since the advent of cocktail culture: An article in Punch cites several sources detailing its inception in Spain, focused at first as a way to chill wine and sherry, and references in literature to thrown cocktails (not just the martini) that date to the mid-1800s.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Rieger’s Straight Rye Whiskey is the foundation, while fino sherry adds a dry, nutty complexity.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
It was aged in just two Oloroso sherry butts from the Antonio Paez Lobato Cooperage in Jerez, Spain, which were stored in warehouse eight.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sherry
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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Etymology
named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made
Word Origin
It is common to name wines after the part of a country where they are made. The wine called sherry today was first made in a town originally called, in Spanish, Xeres. The English approximation of the Spanish pronunciation was \ˈsher-ēz\, spelled sherris. After a time, people thought that sherris was a plural and so made a singular form, sherry, by cutting off the supposed plural ending. The \sh\ sound symbolized by x in Spanish (later by j) changed to a \ḵ\ or \h\, so that the modern Spanish pronunciation of Jerez is even less like English sherry.
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