SHERRY - Styles of Sherry - Dry sherries
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Wat is the maximum rs of dry sherries
What is Manzanilla Pasada
- Manzanilla Pasada has had a short period of oxidative ageing
- The died naturally by not refreshing the barrels with new wine around the year
- It may have entered a Manzanilla Pasada solera system
- average few years older than Manzanilla
- become to look like amontillado
How is Amontillado produced
- Both biological and oxidative
- they start in a Fino solera system
- then re-fortified to 17% abv > flor dies
- oxidatively matured in an Amontillado solera system
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Explain the difference between inexpensive and expensive Amontillado
- young biological aged wine from the youngest Fino criadera's
- short time in Amontillado system
Expensive Amontillado:
- longer ageing
What is Palo Cortado sherry
- No stipulations on wine making or maturation
- aromas similar to those of Amontillado
- palate more similar to Oloroso due to oxidative ageing
- Mandatory sugar level under 5 g/L
- Mandatory alcohol between 17-22%abv
- Started in Fino system, followed by Palo Cortado system, like Amontillado > Second classification > less delicate, more complex, less able to support the thick layer of flor > so had already some oxidation
- typically very good - outstanding
What is the mail difference between Amontillado and Palo Cortado
- Palo Cortado will have spent less time biological ageing
- > acetaldehyde aromas less prominent
- Glycerol levels from Palo Cortado are higher & concentration of the components
- > fuller and rounder body than Amontillado
How is Oloroso sherry produced
- Only oxidative ageing
- After fermentation fortified to 17% abv to stop flor developing
- Brown
- tertiairy, oxidative aromas > toffee, walnuts
- inexpensive > earlier released from solera system
- premium > well-matured
What is En Rama sherry
- A sherry finished and packaged in a way to be the best representation of the wine straight from the barrel
- some no fining/filtration, som light (for export)
- No legal definition
- can be applied for any of the three dry styles
- fino/manzanilla
- amontillado
- oloroso
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