The Six Best Food Matches for Sweet Sherry

The Six Best Food Matches for Sweet Sherry

Gabriel Stone, 15.11.2021

Don’t dismiss sweet sherry as a cheap, kitsch tipple for grandparents. The finest examples are a truly sophisticated treat: just try them with one of these six food matches.

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These days oloroso is officially a dry classification, although some labels still refer to traditional terms such as “Oloroso Dulce”. In its sweet incarnation, Oloroso is blended with Pedro Ximénez. The top examples are matured for many years in barrel to create an intensely rich, nutty, complex mouthful, their sweetness balanced by a dark chocolate bitterness.

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