Category Archives: Sherry

Recent Wines July 2019 #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 02/08/2019 by dccrossley

July has been an unusually quiet month on the blog in terms of articles published, with relatively few exciting tastings, but I’ve still been drinking interesting wines at home, and that’s what this monthly roundup is all about. There are … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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