Wine with Leslie: Sherry — fine wine with a very fine range
Sherry: under-rated, says our wine man.
This week I want to remind you about the joys of Sherry — arguably the most underrated fine wine of them all. We are coming to the end of International Sherry Week but sadly there were no Irish events this year... hopefully next year.
First, a little reminder of how Sherry is made. The grapes used are Palomino and Pedro Ximenez: both neutral-tasting grapes that can cope well with the white albariza soils around Jerez and in Montilla-Morilles. Montilla and Morilles are two towns just north of Malaga and make similar wines to those found in Jerez, Puerto de Santa Maria and Sanlucar de Barrameda (the three Sherry towns).
