plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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Gonzalez-Byass is one of the most famous sherry houses.
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Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Romeo’s takes the elements of a cheesecake, from the cream cheese to the vanilla to the strawberries, clarifies them with Grey Goose vodka and Amontillado sherry, and rims the glass with strawberry coulis and crushed digestive cookies.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
The whiskey features honey, sweet apples, pears, bananas, and sherry aromas on the nose.
—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
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Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Romeo’s takes the elements of a cheesecake, from the cream cheese to the vanilla to the strawberries, clarifies them with Grey Goose vodka and Amontillado sherry, and rims the glass with strawberry coulis and crushed digestive cookies.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
The whiskey features honey, sweet apples, pears, bananas, and sherry aromas on the nose.
—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
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 30 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named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made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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