A Full Guide to Sherry Wines!
When we drove down to the South of the South, Andalucia, we stopped in the town of Jerez de la Frontera, whose former name in Moorish times was “Sherish”. It is under an anglicisation of this name that the wines of Sherry became famous. A little bit like Port wines in Portugal, Sherry wines were first intended for shipping to England. With a long sea voyage ahead of them, they had to be made “stronger” or, in other words, to be “fortified”, which gave birth to a peculiar wine