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    A replacement for sherry?

    , manzanilla, or even an amontillado sherry, drink it within two days. Keep it refrigerated. With port, madeira, and stouter sherries, such as olorosos, palo cortados, and all creams, a period of one week to ten days is the...

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    Dry Sack Sherry - Opinions [Moved from Spirits board]

    ://www.vinicola-hidalgo.es/ — Gonzales, Byass http://www.bodegastiopepe.com/ From reading the other posts, it DOES sound as if you’re looking for a Fino or a Manzanilla, rather than an Amontillado or Oloroso. Look for...

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    TIA POL has great tapas -- oh yes!

    of course they had it, la gitana manzanilla. it’s dry and light and kind of hard to find in other tapas places. i also had a oloroso to finish. we sat at the bar and service is fine, except the bartender spilled a glass of...

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    the new Salts

    restaurant.) Decor is not an improvement over the old Salts; it has the slightly unfinished, cheap-accoutrements feeling that Dedo had in its first months. Three apps, an entree, wine, the big cheese plate, and an oloroso sherry...

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    Morton's/Le Pichet

    a glass of something as rich as the presentation in front of me....Romieu-Lacoste. This was daring, but just too overblown and shall I say.... decadent? No, No this would not do. What this needed was a dry Oloroso or at least the...

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    Recomendations for Convivium

    I’ve been there twice with large groups and the food all around was very good. The people who run it are very nice — we’ve gotten wonderful recommendations on sherries, from lovely dry fino with appetizers to a...

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    Apres-chowdown in Walnut Creek

    in the photo below: Harvey’s Bristol Cream Sherry, $4; Lustau Solera Reserva Moscatel Superior “Emilin”, $5, Lustau Oloroso del Tonel Sherry, $6; Henriques & Henriques 10 year old Malmsey, $8, and Ferreira Dona...

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    Do baked apples have to be boring?

    I suggest adding a bit of zing to baked apples by adding some adult beverage to the mixture. Rum is an excellent addition, as are brandy, calvados, port, oloroso sherry, or even gin. Keep in mind that with any of these, a little...

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    Chicago's Grande Dame? The Kitchen Table Menu at Charlie Trotter's

    a pleasing savory-sweet-bitter interplay, which was accented to great effect by the tartness of the cherries. The accompanying salty tuiles, meanwhile, added a great textural element and gave the dish a lingering savory finish....

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    Storing Sherry

    -maturation in the reductive environment of the bottle. Fino style sherries are a small percent of sherry production and far from the majority. Sherries on the rayas track - olorosos, creams – are a much larger part of total...

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    Momofuku Ssam yesterday

    on a small baguette, lamb meatballs with some cheese inside. they also have a sherry i totally love – asuncion oloroso jerez alvear pedro jimenez – just off dry, not as aggressisive as many dry sherries, not sickly...

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    Prado - Paradise Valley, AZ

    for E and an after-dinner tail for me – the Montilla Manhattan with rye, oloroso sherry, and bitters. We both agreed that with this most recent visit to Prado, it showed its true potential. It’s such a gorgeous...

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    lillet blanc

    I would think of Seiryo Kijoshu as more like an oloroso sherry. Fino is drier than Lillet imo. Also sherries are grape based, so would not work for you, right? PS if you are looking for something a bit drier (and probably closer...

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    Dali in Somerville. Any Recommendations?

    Thanks for all hounds' recommendations! I had a wonderful time at Dali last night sitting at the bar and it wasn’t crowded at all. Me and my friend shared 4 tapas and we both had a couple sangria and I had a glass of...

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    Critique my two days in London

    the effort. Goes well with a glass of their Oloroso Abocado Hidalgo, a semi sweet sherry, nutty flavours against nutty flavours with equal sweetness to match. If the dishes I tried were typical, I’d skip Bar Shu, it lacks...

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