Sherry- your thoughts
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My thoughts are, a glass of sherry and a cadbury's chocolate finger. Bite each end off the finger and use it like a straw to drink the sherry through. When it's too soaked to drink through, get another finger and repeat. Keep filling sherry glass and replacing finger as necessary 
I used to like a drop of British Cream Sherry, but it's now banned from calling itself sherry and has become 'British Fortified Wine'. It was nice in a pint glass, topped up with either lemonade or ginger beer.
I always thought those QC adverts at xmas time were funny - roaring fire, leather armchair, an air of refinement and phrases like "Quality Counts", whereas it was actually full-on jakey juice, enjoyed on many a park bench.
I always thought those QC adverts at xmas time were funny - roaring fire, leather armchair, an air of refinement and phrases like "Quality Counts", whereas it was actually full-on jakey juice, enjoyed on many a park bench.
Looby
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I always enjoyed a nice sherry at crimbo then about 5 years ago had my heartbroken and drank 4 bottles of cheap sherry whilst listening to 'there is a light' by the smiths on repeat. Now whenever I smell it I am reminded of being found by my housemate sobbing on my bed surrounded by sherry bottles. 
chooch said:I'm looking at a small plastic Tio Pepe shaped badge as I type.
Very dry and very good, but not the easiest for a sherry novice I reckon.
Sherry novices should go elsewhere, tis true. When I was a kid, my M&D used to buy a bottle of malt, bottle of cognac and a bottle of Tio Pepe at Christmas. Would last them the whole year. They would let us have a tiny nip just to see what they tasted like. Kind of spoilt us for the Harveys Bristol Cream in later years
(But they forgot to let us try beer, cider and wine - we ran riot on those when we grew up
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That's sadsparklefish said:I always enjoyed a nice sherry at crimbo then about 5 years ago had my heartbroken and drank 4 bottles of cheap sherry whilst listening to 'there is a light' by the smiths on repeat. Now whenever I smell it I am reminded of being found by my housemate sobbing on my bed surrounded by sherry bottles.
but it made me laugh
Looby
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Shirl said:That's sad
I can laugh about it now, in fact I was chatting to my old housemate about it today, she finds it very amusing. I bought the 1st 2 bottles from the offy next door but I was so embarrassed about going back a 3rd time I staggered down to the local supermarket to buy bottles 3 and 4, I must have been all over the place.
My booze on choice in the wilderness years, if I could get past the white cider. Terrible stuff but a bottle in 30 minutes or less does set you up. Like to think I've passed the stage I would consider drinking it now, but fuck knows.shandy said:
Ow. That's about 25 pints equivalent.sparklefish said:
Must've been a bit tired by the end of the yearDerian said:
Yer Andalusians would finish it in one session, before it goes off.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
a nip of sherry is good in a bloody mary but not at any other time.
ask me again in 40 years and i may have grown into it
ask me again in 40 years and i may have grown into it
Badger Kitten
oof
I put amontillado in a bloody mary too.
I like chilled sherry with olives, nuts and serano ham, as a tapas-y snack accompaniment. Dry sherry with sweet cured fatty meats, sweet sherry with salty olives and nuts, both serviced chilled, or even over ice like a bourbon.
I like chilled sherry with olives, nuts and serano ham, as a tapas-y snack accompaniment. Dry sherry with sweet cured fatty meats, sweet sherry with salty olives and nuts, both serviced chilled, or even over ice like a bourbon.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I like a good chilled Fino, meself. Life is but a trifle and only sherry makes it tolerable.
changingman
Cyber curmudgeon
Far canal.. Sounds like the ideal accompaniment to a nice deep-fried Mars bar.shandy said:
Me I'm partial to a drop of highly chilled Manzanilla.. fino with a little tang of the sea. Got two thumping great litre bottles at Madrid airport a little while back for less than £3 each. All gone now sadly.
We're the mugs of Europe aren't we? Paying all that for a little snifter.
Blimey if i lived in France or Spain i'd have a liver like a mattress.. make George Best look like Mother Teresa..(actually from what Denis Law said the other day i think he does look like Mother Teresa at the moment)
Bleeding difficult. Sainsbury's had a good Barbadillo one they'd rebranded as Sticky Pudding Wine for christmas last year. Majestic do one, but it's not much more than ok, and a case is quite a lot. Otherwise it's the odd web place or musty old wine merchants. You might have more luck finding PX based Malaga.Ms T said:
Mystery to me why it's not more popular- good stuff pisses on most Port and Madeira.
