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

At this time of year - mulled wine, please!

Calli ‘every day is a Sunday when you’re retired’ ...

G&T in summer, but I do I like an Amontillado in winter, especially around Christmas time.,
Treated myself last week to a bottle from Waitrose, now in the ship’s decanter that belonged to my father. He was strictly a Fino type though.
I will have one while cooking the dinner shortly , - cheers in advance. 🍷🎄

volver

We did a tour of one of the sherry bodegas in Jerez. Tio Pepe maybe? There was a wine tasting at the end and nobody fancied the "real" sherry, they all preferred the Bristol Cream. So DH and I had their shares of PX and Palo Cortado.

Now that was a night... 🤣

We went to the Bristol Cream place in Bristol for a tasting

The servings were very generous so it was lucky we weren't driving.

M0nica

Ok for cooking, but i would never choose to drink sherry, and either sweet and claggy or like drinking vinegar.

Try a manzanilla M0nica. Tastes of the sea 🙂

(Has anyone guessed I like jerez?)

Martin Miller gin, £28, often on offer £22, £23 in Waitrose atm. Made with water from Iceland. I never said that it wasn’t pretentious. Served with Fevertree tonic, twist of lime, small icecubes, delicious !

Nice to hear of all these drinks!
So many to try.
Yes Wyllow great idea, very seasonal.

As I recall, sherry is hangover inducing.

Urmstongran

Calli ‘every day is a Sunday when you’re retired’ ...

Well, we were out for lunch today Urmstongran so I had a spritzer.
Then someone bought a bottle of Sauv Blanc ....... 😀

Ah, sherry - don't come across it these days. I'm taken back to the '70s and Berni Inns. Prawn cocktail, steak and chips, Black Forest gateau and a schooner of sherry. Lethal stuff if you have too much, I discovered! 🤢

Perfect with your fish fingers and beans tonight Witzend! Posh.

I enjoy a Croft Original dry sherry as an aperitif. Look at me, all Agatha Christie! My favourite drink at the moment is whiskey (Jameson's) and green ginger. Or a Bloody Mary. Tonight will be a gin though.

Always used to have a glass of sherry with my mum while helping her make Sunday lunch. Must have been when I was teenager. Whilst I now prefer a g&t or glass of something sparkly as an aperitif somehow in winter we always get a bottle of sherry in. I like it best before Sunday dinner (eaten in evening nowadays). Amontillado is my favourite. People can be a bit dismissive of sherry but give it a chance I say 😀

My kind of company right there Calli!
volver 😁😁 Yep!

Budge up Grandmabatty! I just knew we’d get on in RL. 😊

My mother was very keen on Croft Original - I thought it was sweetish, though - she didn’t like anything dry.

Once her dementia was more advanced, my brother used to buy it for her - and water it down a bit before he gave it to her - she was knocking back loads of it!

Croft Original tastes sweet to me.
I could drink it at a pinch

When I was at college we used to buy draught sherry from an off licence , it was very cheap, very potent, and very disgusting.
Can’t really face it now.

I'm already halfway down my first Christmas bottle of Crofts, which gets opened on 1st December.

For those of you who prefer a sweeter sherry try Pedro Ximenez - it's the one used by Nigella in her Christmas pudding recipes and is absolutely glorious. I can only manage a sip or two - I keep intending to try it over ice cream but haven't yet done so.

Just had a sherry (fino) to help me write our Christmas cards. It’s a tradition (my excuse).

Cheers 🥂, I like a sherry this time of year. Must admit I can’t tell the difference between all these fancy Gins. It’s Aldi’s own make for me, mostly summertime though.

Those were the days eh Sara1954! Or not.
Good to keep those family traditions going Soroptimim. (Any excuse). Helps with the (slightly tedious but eventually very rewarding) job of Christmas card writing.

Same as my husband Poppyred. He likes basic gin like Aldi's, not what he calls 'gins that have been messed with'.

Spinnaker

I'm already halfway down my first Christmas bottle of Crofts, which gets opened on 1st December.

For those of you who prefer a sweeter sherry try Pedro Ximenez - it's the one used by Nigella in her Christmas pudding recipes and is absolutely glorious. I can only manage a sip or two - I keep intending to try it over ice cream but haven't yet done so.

I make my Christmas puddings following Nigella's recipe, the fruit soaked in sherry tastes gorgeous. I'll occasionally have a glass of the sherry as a dessert wine.

Well fancy this post coming up, I was only thinking about sherry yesterday and thinking about getting Bristol Cream, mind you think I will only be able to drink it on my good days when I am not knocking back the morphine. Actually I do like port and lemon, maybe sherry before and port and lemon afterwards