At this time of the year ... anyone else fancying a glass of sherry before dinner?

We're fancying Glühwein. Our favourite winter drink.

Just bought a bottle of Advocaat and am having a few seasonal snowballs. If you mix in lime juice it cuts through the sweetness

ayse

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Not keen on sherry but if I have one it has to be Crofts.

I did Glugg (mulled wine) the other night for family who came round to watch Santa come round on his sleigh courtesy of the Round Table. I don’t actually like it.

What I do like at Christmas is a nice glass of port especially with some nice cheese and crackers. I recommend the M&S port.

We’re not keen either but we’ve started out Christmas celebration with a glass of port, a wedge of Stilton and biscuits for DH after dinner. Yummy 🤤

Port, stilton and crackers are my favourite 😍

Haven't had sherry for ages - but now I really fancy a Croft Original with lots of ice (wonder if DH would pop round to Tesco to buy me a bottle 😊)

Amontillado for me too when the air has a chill to it. Never touch Sherry in the summer. I quite like a glass of port too for a change. Very warming. What time is it? A bit too early yet for me but all this talk is making me clock watch!

Just trudging home uphill in the snow I suddenlyreally fancied a Bailey's. Goodness knows where that craving came from. We don't have any in the house not have we had for many years. Oh well. A nice glass of Adam's ale will have to suffice.

Waitrose dry sherry is nice. I had my first one last night with a few little cheese biscuits and twiglets before dinner . We always buy dry and sweet sherry coming up to Christmas . I also like Noilly Prat but we drink that all year. I usually only drink at the weekend but had had a very stressful day in work!

Sherry in this house goes in the trifle!! But we have progressed to Amaretto or Disaronno for the trifle to ring the changes.
But a mulled wine would be nice warmer wrapped up in a slanket!!

What a great thread! I’m new here and glad to find topics I can relate to! My go to is g&t but at Christmas I always buy a bottle of dubonnet to mix with the gin. Waitrose are always running out but you can get it on Amazon.

A nice cup of tea - about a dozen times a day when it's chilly outside!

I hate it. Gives me awful heartburn, as does all spirits/alcohol. I have a hiatus hernia, but even before that it did the same.

Croft and La Concha for us. Yum.

Thank you OldThing! Nice of you to say.
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We're off to Spain in a week or so, to the Sherry Triangle, no less.
The local bodega sells a two litre plastic bottle of either fino or dry amontillado for, I think, 9 euros. Bargain and delicious. You used to be able to take your own empty bottles and get them filled, but they've gone upmarket..
There are a couple of sherry bars in the town too, serving 'flights' of sherry with plates of gorgeous Spanish ham.
I can't wait to escape the cold and dark.

For the last 50 years I have only bought sherry for the christmas sherry trifle (or sherry soup as my family refer to it!). However, I have very very happy memories of my first job, in Wigan Public Libraries. Every payday we would go out for lunch at the Berni Inn up the road. For starters we all had a schooner of sherry and the bread roll and butter before rump steak and chips. Wonderful memories, thanks Urmstongran!

SiobhanSharpe

We're off to Spain in a week or so, to the Sherry Triangle, no less.
The local bodega sells a two litre plastic bottle of either fino or dry amontillado for, I think, 9 euros. Bargain and delicious. You used to be able to take your own empty bottles and get them filled, but they've gone upmarket..
There are a couple of sherry bars in the town too, serving 'flights' of sherry with plates of gorgeous Spanish ham.
I can't wait to escape the cold and dark.

Oh, I'm jealous! Which town are you staying in?

My late Mum loved a sherry when she was cooking Sunday lunch. Harvey’s when I was very small then she changed to Croft Original when I was in my teens. I can’t remember exactly how old I was, but maybe only 11 or 12 when I was allowed a tiny liqueur glass of sherry if I was helping with the cooking. Thought I was very grown up at the time. I occasionally have a glass in her honour when I’m cooking and always have one for her on Christmas Day.

I’ve been wrapping Christmas presents today with a couple of glasses of Harvey’s whilst doing so - it’s traditional.

Yes, sherry is back and losing its Hinge and Bracket (loved them) association.
I now keep a couple of bottles for visitors as don’t drink myself, just as I keep a tin of tea biscuits for the same interlopers.
Can’t stand them, which means I always have a biscuit to offer with a cup of tea.

OH has a glass of Oloroso before dinner - sometimes l have been known to partake if l have run out of Rangpur gin!

Not sure when I last had sherry...but I did pick up a nice bottle of port for our Christmas day cheeseboard!

Either manzanilla or fino for me.

Last weekend, I put a mixture of manzanilla and amaretto in a bowl so that DGD could feed the Christmas cakes. I have to admit that I drank what was left from the dish!

Sherry is very much part of Christmas for me -Never any other time of year though

My dear mum always loved a sherry. In her last year's she had dreadful Rheumatoid Arthritis and always had her sherry in a small brandy glass which was the only glass she could hold securely. Almost 30 years on, I use the same glass, slightly chipped now, to have my sherry "with mum" as I'm cooking the Sunday dinner. Always an Amontillado with a Pedro Ximanez at Christmas - as recommended by Delia.