in cooking—first course was clams sauteed in Manzanilla sherry, 2nd was monkfish sauteed in Fino sherry with lots of garlic, golden raisins and pine nuts, and 3rd was grilled tuna in an Oloroso sherry sauce. Of these three,...

is a slightly saltier version of fino; amontillado (as in the Poe story) is older, darker, nuttier — considered to be “medium.” Any others tend more toward the sweet: oloroso, and cream. Note that “Dry...

Reserva Palo Cortado Sherry "Peninsula" In the OLOROSO category: Lustau VOS 20 yr old Dry Oloroso Lustau Solera Gran Reserva Very Rare Oloroso Sherry “Emperatriz Eugenia” Lustau Almacenista Oloroso Pata de Gallina 1/38...

, their restaurant critic. The restaurants in Edinburgh currently on the list are: 4) Martin Wishart 16) Cosmo 19) Petit Paris 21) Oloroso 22) VinCaffe If you do a search for Edinburgh on the chowhound.com homepage, you may be able to...

dry sherry typically isn’t very expensive to begin with, and you can find some good ones for under $10. look for: - Pedro Romero Dry Oloroso - Hidalgo Manzanilla - Osborne Amontillado - Gallo Fairbanks Pale Dry Sherry

—if you like sweet things, that is—you’ll never be the same person again. I have preferred my sherry dry for many years. My usual choice is palo cortado, a much less well-known style that falls between an amontillado and an...

't stock it. It’s great stuff. Sherry makes a very distinctive vinegar so don’t hesitate to seek it out. If you do need to substitute, try some white wine vinegar mixed with a little dry oloroso.

pairings and they worked beautifully. Started with sardines two ways and had that with a fino sherry. Both sardines were fine, the escabeche wasn’t overly vinaigery. Followed with sweetbreads on a warm radicchio salad, had...

't imagine someone putting an Oloroso in a large burgundy glass, that’s just plain wrong.

), the result is an Oloroso — dark, rich, and completely dry. A Cream Sherry is a dry Oloroso that has been sweetened — traditionally by the addition of PX (but now it is often sweetened with an inferior mistela of...

's tongue w/ favas, pulpo w/ grapefruit & fennel and the guinea hen w/ rhubarb mostaza. all three were wonderful, but the hen was really done up perfectly and hit the spot. for dessert we had a glass of oloroso sherry and the...

Dry vermouth is excellent for de-glazing. I always keep a bottle around so i don’t have to open wine. I also use Oloroso Sherry a fair bit, Brandy or Cognac from time to time and vodka when i don’t want much flavor but would like...

the ling cod with clams, in an orange saffron sauce. it was lovely, light, a bit on the orange flavored side, but perfectly done. we shared the warm rice pudding with oloroso sherry and dried fruit. good, warm, small portion. the...

Last September I had a great meal at Oloroso just off Princes St. Nice terrace, good wine. I also wouldn’t miss Plasir du Chocolat on the Royal Mile more towards Holyrood. They have gorgeous hot chocolate, cafe au lait,...

.V. Champagne France CONSOMME Tomato-fish broth woth smoked eel, rapini, edamamw and sesame salt. Manzanilla Sheery La Gitana Vinicola Hidalgo SEARED Quebec Fois Gras with braised oxtail and socca. Oloroso Sheery Alvear Asuncion...