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Notes from a Pedro Ximénez tasting
.) We all have our vices, our guilty pleasures, our secret lusts. But secrecy aside, my list just expanded. Have you ever had a wine from Pedro Ximénez grapes? Sweet. Unctuous. Syrupy. And, to use that hoary advertising language:...
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Pedro Ximenez tasting--advice sought
I’ve had this notion of hosting a vertical tasting of Pedro Ximenez and the idea keeps rattling and rattling around. I’m having trouble with two things: should it follow a meal or be done on its own? That’s...
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Pairings for Pedro Ximénez: before, with, and after
I have posted below about a vertical tasting of Pedro Ximénez, or PX, sherry—a very sweet dessert wine—from Bodegas Toro Albalá. Since I posted here seeking advice on what to pair with the PX for the tasting, I think a report on...
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ISO Alvear's Vinagre de Pedro Ximénez Semi Seco
Have just emptied my bottle of this delicious off-dry vinegar that also bears the wording “Solera 10” on its front label. Made by one of the leading producers of Montilla-Moriles, it’s like a cross between...
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Mendiants
Petite chocolate bites topped with pistachios, raisins, almonds, and orange.
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Apple Tarts with Apple Ice
A marriage of sweet, tart, warm, and cold.
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Nobody Expects Spanish Brandy
All that glitters is not Cognac or Armagnac.
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Adonis
A sherry-based tail.
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Spot-On Scones
Afternoon tea and fine dinners at Gordon Ramsay.
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Sherry dinner at Azafran
) and wished we’d had more room for. Dessert was a very nice almond tart. I wish I had taken better notes on the actual sherries, as the printout I have just has the type: Manzanilla, Palo Cortado, Oloroso, Amontillado and...
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Jerez help...
I traveled to Spain last summer and feel in love with Pedro Ximenez Alvear Solera 1927. I am looking for a bottle of sherry that follows along the lines of the 1927- sweet, viscous, and around 20$. Grape and color are not...
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Pairings: Sherry Crema Catalana
Moscatel: Molino Real, Don Salvador Trasañejo Moscatel, Ochoa Dulce de Moscatel, or Ordonez and Company. More ideas here: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/360318 Or, a little heavier in flavor, more molasses and raisin-y in flavor,...
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Wine with bananas?
«I’m stuck in dessert mode» Me too. Dry wines do not compute. A caramelly Pedro Ximenez would be my WAG.
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Madrid: best ice cream or gelato?
in Tequila with Greek Yoghurt ice cream ala pedro Ximenez" Has anyone else had such?
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Madrid and Bilbao
Santa Caterina and on some hotels when those topics come up again.) I also have some wines to recommend and of course my favorite desert Sherry: Pedro Ximenez. Thanks
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