navigation links

sherry and sherry wine vinegar from Andalusia

index

Domecq
Gonzalez-Byass
Sandeman
Harveys

Jerez de la Frontera lies some nine miles inland from the sea between Cadiz and Sevilla in southern Spain and is the principal of three sherry towns. The others are on the coast are Sanlucar de la Barrameda at the mouth of the river Guadalquivir, and Puerto de Santa Maria. Between them they produce virtually all the genuine sherry that is shipped to the rest of the world.

- click here for more information - where does sherry come from?

D Tapas, Brighton UK

orders taken by email

A Flamenco guitarist (and Flamenco singer) can be arranged for a special occasion with your sherry and tapas in the restaurant for you. Please ask for a quote.

For UK customers we can arrange easy shipment through UK distributors.

Worldwide orders taken subject to shipping costs.

Now you can also order Spanish products, including sherry, sherry wine vinegar, quality olive oil and table olives, cola-cao (chocolate drink), Spanish ham (jamon), white bean stew (fabada), sausage (chorizo or salchicha) directly from the shop in Brighton UK. There is also a tapas bar, so step into andalusia for a sherry and snack!

Recommended sherries:

this is a "fino sherry", typical of Jerez de la Frontera

Try the most popular:

Fino (dry light sherry)

Oloroso Oro Viejo (dark and golden sweet)

Pedro Ximenez (from the characteristic sweet grape)

Recommended olive oil:

This is an excellent "Manzanilla" sherry from Sanlucar

Jerez de la Frontera

the famous Duque de Diano label - a sign of quality sherry wine vinegar

available for export

Vinagre de Jerez (Sherry Vinegar) comes in two age categories. These vinegars are made using the criaderas or soleras method. This is the traditional method used to age fine wines and sherry . The first category of sherry vinegar is aged for at least six months in oak casks. The second category is called Reserva (reserve), which means that it has been aged in oak casks for at least two years. Because these vinegars are aged in oak wood, they develop unique characteristics (flavour, colour and taste), which canot be duplicated by other common mixed vinegars.

Vinagre de Jerez has a complexity of taste like balsamic vinegar, but it has a balanced sweet and sour taste. The aroma is that of sweet grapes with a slight acidity. It tastes sweet to the tongue and then turns to a citric sourness. The reserve vinegar is sweeter, with less sourness. The aging in wood makes the vinegar a mahogany colour, with hints of caramel, sugar, grapes and citrus.

sherried history
vinegar
olive oil

recipes

© flamencoshop.com 2007

flamenco guitar in the bodega - please ask!

comments to the flamenco messageboard forum