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Wines from the Mediterranean coast of Spain -- help?
from Valencia. Monastrell is also made there, and there is a wine —- a dessert wine — made there that I love: Pedro Ximenez. That’s quite a treat. These areas are somewhat obscure, and require a guide to make...
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Do Ice-cream and Wine go together???
Lustau East India Sherry is different from other Cream Sherries. It’s a blend of one of their oldest oloroso soleras and an old Pedro Ximenez. The style is said to mimic the Cream Sherry served to the Brits in India during...
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Dinner at Mustards Grill Napa
the Sonoma Rabbit with oregeno rub, romesco and veg stew and the Chipotle Rubbed roasted Quails with a Pedro Ximenez- dried cherry sauce. Bartender reccomend the Quails which I am really happy she did. Companion had to...
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What to serve with an ice-cream dessert
Sometimes it’s best just to skip the wine or serve it after the dessert, and this may be one of those times. That said, a Pedro Ximenez sherry or Montilla Moriles could probably stand up to your dessert. Gonzalez...
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Help with red, sweet sherry name
Well, nothing matches the criteria. Sherry is produced only in Spain — in the region Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, or El Puerto de Santa María. It is produced rom white wine grapes — principally...
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Jonesy Old Tawny Port - Wow!
a cross between a tawny port and a Pedro Ximenez sherry. Very rich, unctuous, and complex. It is quite sweet. Leather, citrus, raisins, a touch of smoke, honey, and perhaps a hint of something tropical. You could definitely put...
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sherry tasting
with a meal and most bottles are inexpensive. all the sherry styles taste very different. the sweet pedro ximenez style will put you into a diabetic shock, but it has a tasteful mellowness that grows on you. i really liked a...
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Studiokitchen DinnerCorteforte Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso 1998
) - Lustau Pedro Ximenez San Emilio (Spainish sherry dessert wine) I had originally tried to invite friends that weren’t Chowhounds and didn’t know about it or wouldn’t get together such a group on their own. No...
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RW - Chez Henri
as an aperitif, and I had a glass of an Alvear Pedro Ximenez. The whiskey was also really tasty, even for me who doesn’t normally drink hard liquor, and the Pedro was more than the customary maple-syrup-with-a-kick texture,...
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Pairing with Both Pumpkin & Apple Pies?
I’d like to also suggest a dessert sherry. The dark brown spices and flavors like mollassas, fig, raisin, etc would certainly work well with pumpkin and apple. Pedro Ximénez is a good example. Thanks
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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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Sherry Vinegar r/o
While I don’t have a system of guidelines for you to use while selecting a sherry vinegar, I do have a recommendation. The very old Pedro Ximenez vinegar available at Zingerman’s (link below) is an astonishing product....
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Fancy food stocking stuffers?
I stop at Dairy Fresh in N.End for all sorts of candies (torrone, fudge etc.) and jellies, jams and sauces. Capone in Union Square has the same figs (I give a box with a figgy Pedro Ximenez Sherry, great combo and taste)and...
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Chicago's "best" dishes
Pretzel pancakes at Bongo Room. Trotter’s menu changes daily, but his Black Mission Figs with Shaved Fruit Cake, Marcona Almonds, Pedro Ximenez, Proscuitto, and Bacon Fat is possibly my favorite all time dessert.
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What's Your Favorite and Why?
Worthy choices. Everyone I have ever given a taste of PX (there’s no Don, Pedro Ximenez is a kind of grape) loved it.
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