plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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The whiskey features honey, sweet apples, pears, bananas, and sherry aromas on the nose.
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Carnivores, meanwhile, can carve into filets, N.Y. strips and ribeyes as well as Berkshire pork in a sherry reduction and double-bone lamb chops in roasted garlic-thyme jus.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Be sure to save room for dessert: the vanilla ice cream with PX sherry drizzled on top is the stuff of Spanish dreams.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2025
This expression is matured in a combination of ex-Oloroso sherry (70%) and ex-bourbon casks (30%); the higher proportion of sherry casks impart a rich and fruity character to the whisky.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Carnivores, meanwhile, can carve into filets, N.Y. strips and ribeyes as well as Berkshire pork in a sherry reduction and double-bone lamb chops in roasted garlic-thyme jus.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Be sure to save room for dessert: the vanilla ice cream with PX sherry drizzled on top is the stuff of Spanish dreams.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2025
This expression is matured in a combination of ex-Oloroso sherry (70%) and ex-bourbon casks (30%); the higher proportion of sherry casks impart a rich and fruity character to the whisky.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 18 Apr. 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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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