plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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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.
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Another place worth checking out includes the Trophy Room, a retro cocktail bar that takes patrons back to the days of speakeasies with drinks like Ol’ Gunpowder, a mix of spiced rum, pear, and Licor 43 liqueur, or the Grin & Bear with rye whiskey, sherry, and apricot liqueur.
—Cindy Barks, AFAR Media, 27 Feb. 2025
Maybe a splash of sherry vinegar or a big squeeze of lemon goes in at the end.
—Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 25 Feb. 2025
To prepare sauce, combine fresh chili pepper, balsamic vinegar, dry sherry, hoisin sauce and soy sauce into a bowl.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 7 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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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