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La Paella-Thanx Chowhound
also escape the memory, and a pear dessert and two glasses of oloroso. Total was $62 plus tip. No, we had no main courses, as paella at that time of night would have been too much food. Paella would have run $22 per entree, fwiw....
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what wines with Oaxacan cuisine?
- I’ve had more than enough snow this winter) I’m wondering what types of wines would be a good match. I’ve had oloroso sherry with some spicy dishes that I thought worked well. I’ll be trying various...
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La Cigarrera Manzanilla Sherry vs. La Gitana - brief notes
impressed. It was served to me blind, and I diddled around between an oversweetened Amontillado and a high grade of Oloroso in my analysis. It was quite elegant and was marked by the flor. We were all stunned when it was...
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San Antonio Riverwalk, Is there anything good that is not Tex-Mex or Mexican??
Sandbar definately if you love seafood (not on the river-don’t let the seedy surroundings distract you, not inexpensive but worth it). If you’re not averse to a 3-5 block stroll south on Alamo I’d also highly...
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Not to be missed in San Antonio
personal favorites are LaFritte, Oloroso (both in southtown-an easy/safe walk from the downtown hotels), and Sandbar(accross from bus station-seedy locale but the best seafood in SA). If price is not an issue I’d definately...
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Reco's for Islay single malt as a gift?
Oloroso sherry barrels rather than the 85% bourbon/15% Oloroso of say Bowmore 12 These are definitely worth looking for. The sherry barrels give a slight sweetness to the end notes which compliments the peat. I tried a number at...
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Help with a Sherry ....
, I woudn’t say with cognac since it is Spanish wine (am I wrong?). The sweeter styles are cream, amoroso/oloroso dulce, Pedro Ximenez and Moscatel. PX are extremely sweet dessert wines, oloroso dulce might be the most...
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Wine pairing for PB&J?
My first thought would be the same things that go with nut desserts: oloroso sherry, malmsey Madiera, port. Use peanut butter without partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil as that crap coats your tounge. With good bread and sour...
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Sherry Dessert/Sweet Recipes
I’m making a traditional English Trifle this weekend, so bought a bottle of sweet oloroso sherry. Does anyone have any other dessert recipes that require sherry? I don’t drink sherry, so it’ll go to waste, as...
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Wine to serve with Cream of Chestnut Soup
would be concerned about matching a red wine with CREAM. Here’s what I’d try with it: 1) a sweeter Sherry: either sweetened Amontillado or Oloroso 2) Chardonnay 3) Sauternes (or other sweeter Semillion) 4) a sweeter German...
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Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews Recs for July
, great wine list Creelers: fish Martin Wishart: fancy http://www.ijmellischeesemonger.com/ is the best cheesemonger in Britain Valvona & Crolla: great Italian deli Oloroso: don’t eat here, but have a drink on the terrace Glasgow...
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Boulevard - What do you LOVE on the menu?
flavors were what did it for me. It they still have the pear crepes with the oloroso sherry ice crea, order that, it was fantastic!
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Where to buy fine sherries?
Oloroso Royal Corregidor. Thanks, you Fino hounds, you.
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Bow wow! Finally made it to Elemental@Gasworks
and we didn’t linger long after the last of 9 1/2 courses as it was approaching midnight. - No tipping. If you pay by card, there won’t even be space for a gratuity on your reciept. - Great value. 3 tails (not...
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High end Sherry in Boston area ?
to be the highest. The New Hampshire liquor stores also have some surprising offerings, including my current reigning champion — a Dios Baco oloroso seco which is simply to die for!
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