Category Archives: Sherry

Sherry Baby (Pizarro Sherry Lunch)

Posted on 10/02/2018 by dccrossley

At least once a year the treat of a Sherry-focused lunch comes around, and I’m sure some of you have read tales from our “Fish & Fino” lunches in the past. This week we went to Pizarro, one of José … Continue reading →

Muy Generoso

Posted on 29/01/2017 by dccrossley

Generoso usually refers just to a dry fortified wine, but in this case it refers to our Sherry lunch on Friday where we drank largely wines of a darker hue, Amontillado, through Palo Cortado and Oloroso, to PX. Of course, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Sherry, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Amontillado, Bodegas Navarro Solera Fundacion 1830, Bodegas Tradicion, Bota de Amontillado 49, Chipiona, Cooperativa Catolico Agricola, Cuatro Palmas Gonzalez Byass, Dos Cortado Palo Cortado, Equipo Navazos, Fernando de Castilla, Florpower 57, Fortnum & Mason Sherry, Generoso Lunch, Generoso Wines, Gonzalez Palacios Old Oloroso, Gutierrez Colosia Moscatel, Lebrija, Niepoort-Navazos 2014, Oloroso, Palomino table wine, Pedro Ximenez, PX, Sandeman Dry Amontillado, Unfortified Palomino, Williams & Humbert | 1 Comment

Late January back in Se-ven-teen

Posted on 23/01/2017 by dccrossley

I’m chanelling “Oh What a Night” (The Four Seasons)…Not December 1963, but still “What a Very Special Time for Me, As I Remember, What a Night”. If you know the song, that’s what it felt like. I rarely write about … Continue reading →

Posted in Dining, Fine Wine, Premium Spirits, Rum, Sherry, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Alois Kracher, Arnold Holzer, Austrian Botrytis Wine, Austrian Skin Contact Wine, Bota de Palo Cortado 62, Burgenland Sweet Wine, Chateau-Chalon 1999, Chateau-Chalon Granges Bernard, Chevassu-Fassenet, Denis Chevassu, Equipo Navazos, Equipo Navazos Ron Bota 65, Equipo Navazos Sherry Jerez, Eschenhof Holzer The Orange 2013, Hermitage La Chapelle 1998, Illmitz Wine, Jaboulet La Chapelle 1998, Kracher, Kracher Nouvelle Vague, La Fromagerie Comté, La Fromagerie London Cheesemonger, Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet, Piper-Heidsieck Rare 2002, Red Squirrel Wine Agency, Roter Veltliner, Seewinkel Sweet Wine, tarte tatin wine match, Traminer TbA 2004, Wagram | 1 Comment

Butter or Marge, Daz or Dreft?

Posted on 01/12/2016 by dccrossley

“We don’t know which one is best?” as the words of the song go! Well, to put two world class wines in the same bracket as washing detergents is obviously unfair, but a while ago a small disagreement broke out … Continue reading →

Posted in Sherry, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Glasses, Wine Tastings | Tagged Amontillado, Equipo Navazos, Jerez, La Bota Amontillado 31, La Bota Amontillado 61, Sherry, Sherry - Riedel v Zalto | Leave a comment

Master of Fino

Posted on 12/11/2016 by dccrossley

The wine pro of the 21st Century has to know a lot more than their Bordeaux and their Burgundy these days, but ironically a Master of Wine would, in the past, have known a lot more about his Sherry (I … Continue reading →

Posted in Sherry, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings | Tagged Delicado Fino, El Maestro Sierra Fino, En Rama, Equipo Navazos, Fino, Fino La Panessa, Flor de Lebrija, Gonzalez Byass, Gonzalez Palacios, Hidalgo, International Sherry Week 2016, Jerez, Jesus Barquin, Manzanilla, Manzanilla La Gitana En Rama, Manzanilla Pasada Bota 59, Manzanilla Passada, Masters Superfish, Navazos Niepoort 2014, Palomino Fino, Peter Liem, Rafael Rivas, Rey Fernando de Castilla, Sanlucar, Sherry, Tio Pepe Fino En Rama | 2 Comments

Waterloo Fish-n-Fino

Posted on 31/01/2016 by dccrossley

A group of wine lovers from the Wine Pages forum used to partake in dinners we called “Fizz & Chips”, combining that traditional English stalwart, fish & chips, with sparkling wine (okay, to be honest it was most often very … Continue reading →

Posted in Sherry, Wine Tastings | Tagged Argueso Las Medallas, Bodegas Tradicion, Emilio Hidalgo, Equipo Navazos, Fino, Fish & Fino, Flor de Lebrija, Gonzalez Palacios, Hidalgo La Gitana En Rama, Innocente, Jerez, Jesus Barquin, La Panesa, Lebrija, Lustau, Malaga Virgen, Manzanilla, Masters Fish, Pedro Domecq Sibarita, Peter Liem, Puerto Fino, Sherry, Valdespino | 3 Comments

How the Other Half Leflaives

Posted on 10/11/2015 by dccrossley

If one only drank the kind of wines which I do much of the time, the ones most normal people think a bit odd, then I would be like those wine makers who only drink their own wines. The palate … Continue reading →

Posted in Fine Wine, Sherry, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Chave, Clape, Dom Pérignon, Equipo Navazos, Jacquesson, Leflaive, Moulin Touchais | 1 Comment

The Power of Flor

Posted on 10/05/2015 by dccrossley

Most serious wine lovers have known about the Equipo-Navazos operation for some time now. Peter Liem (in Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla, Manutius, 2012) describes Equipo Navazos as “The most distinctive and unusual project to come out of the Sherry region in … Continue reading →

Posted in Fine Wine, Sherry, Wine, Wine Agencies | Tagged Equipo Navazos, Florpower, Jerez, Navazos-Niepoort, Palomino, Sanlucar Palomino, Sherry, Wine | 2 Comments

Category Archives: Sherry

Sherry Baby (Pizarro Sherry Lunch)

Muy Generoso

Late January back in Se-ven-teen

Butter or Marge, Daz or Dreft?

Master of Fino

Waterloo Fish-n-Fino

How the Other Half Leflaives

The Power of Flor

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