Sherry/Jerez

“Sherry is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing wines to ever grace my palate. It is simultaneously meditative and transcendental, possessing intrinsic flavour complexities and managing to fantastically pair with virtually anything that you’re eating. Sherry is your best friend and your lover; just when you think you understand all of its nuances, it reveals a new facet of itself that you didn't know existed... you thereupon fall even deeper in love, continually captivated and curious…”

~Sarah

“Sherry is the liquid postcard of an incredible place. The wines are mysterious and rich in history and their intrigue is compounded by the fact that they boast terroir of the cellar as well as the land. In the face of dubious international wine trends, sherry simply doesn’t care about what you think you’re supposed to be drinking because it knows in its heart that it’s your vinous soulmate. Very sadly, most people die without having this epiphany and as a result, our graveyards are brimming with unfulfilled corpses (and the price of sherry remains impossibly modest).

The key to sherry is to forego the erroneous notion that white wine is supposed to be fruity and pert... let your evolutionarily developed propensity towards the savoury and the benignly haunting lead you towards bottled liberation in this lifetime! People spend decades meditating in caves to achieve the tranquility that one sip of ancient palo cortado can impart.”

~Al

“Sherry is scintillating, satiating, oft savoury, sometimes sweet, and never stodgy. Cease what you are doing immediately and get some delicious Sherry into your face. Right now!”

~Matty

“Why do I love Sherry? because it is NOT the stuff my parents drank in the 70’s or even the 80’s. Hey, I was in my teens, sneaking into my parents’ liquor cabinet in search of something in a dark bottle so that they wouldn’t notice the level going down. My first thoughts were, “yum, it’s really sweet!” Then after a few more swigs, “hmmm, not really digging this…”

Fast-Forward 40 years... I get hired at Metrovino, Richard and Al are bonkers about sherry and I am thinking about the crap that was in my folks’ liquor cabinet... But I’ve been converted! Sherry is everything. It’s the delicious nectar I sip on before deciding what to drink with dinner, although more often than not we just end up drinking more sherry with the meal. Sherry has so many expressions and dimensions that it is the perfect companion no matter what is going on in your life or even in the next ten minutes.”

~Craig

“Because true Spanish Sherry exists, I believe in magic. Because it is magic, I adore the big middle finger that it presents to a world of flash-in-the-pan, commercial, trendy, flavour-of-the-moment wines.”

~Richard

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Sherry is wine. It’s capable of being one of the most rewarding and delicious wines you could conceive of, and when it is, it’s one of the greatest values for any commercial good on the planet.

Sherry is usually dry. Some sherry is inordinately dry because the biological processes that it undergoes in the bodegas actually eradicate any sugar that might be lingering post-fermentation. If talk of sherry makes you think of something your grannie used to drink, we either have very different understandings of sherry (I suspect mine is more informed), or your grandma was a badass.

Sherry can be sweet. However, sweet examples represent a miniscule fraction of the category and an even smaller percentage of qualitatively relevant sherry… But the best of these are some of the most singular and mesmerizing dessert wines imaginable.

Sherry is a place. It’s an incredible place. The name is a corruption of Jerez and its wines are liquid postcards whose myriad virtues can be enjoyed anywhere and anytime. For example, earlier this week I learned that Palo Cortado pairs well with snow removal and makes the act seem less demeaning.

Sherry is history. In terms of accessibility and affordability, it’s the easiest way to engage with wine that has been enriched by the stubborn passing of time. If you’re reading this on a phone or a computer, you can easily afford a bottle of 25-year-old sherry and could probably contemplate purchasing a 50-year-old example. It’s a tasty way to be an antiquarian.

Sherry enhances your food. In fact, its multiplicity of styles engenders so many earth-shattering pairings that even if you’ve been eating for your entire life, you’ll have a completely new way of looking at mealtime. The synchronicity can be so seamless that sherry will sometimes act more like an ingredient than a pairing.

Sherry makes your life smell better. So emphatic and explicit are its aromatics that you can discard your scented candles and Glade cans as long as you make sure to have a glass of sherry poured in any room whose odours you want to enhance. Oloroso translates as fragrant and should be used liberally to perfume your breath, your brain, your house and your life.

Sherry gives you confidence. Once your breath and your mind are adequately perfumed, rare is the personal or professional hindrance that you can’t overcome.Sherry engenders compassion and leads to spiritual transcendence. Its aromas mercilessly conjure your earliest memories (I have even re-experienced my birth while sipping ancient Amontillado) and the intricate nexus of spectral flavours can haunt you indefinitely. The result can be the attainment of liberation whereby your only suffering will be to think of the masses whose closed wine-minds impede their own transcendence.

In short, sherry will enrich your life. It has been known to make uncanny contributions to the health, happiness, intelligence and understanding of those who regularly imbibe. Integrate sherry into your life today and the measure of your dreams will be achieved with unexpected rapidity!

Read the original article by Al Drinkle

Al regails us of a story of a random passerbys exclamation of “That shit is fucking awesome!” upon his first sip of Palo Cortado.

https://www.metrovino.com/wine-journal/the-perpetual-ambassadors

Back in 2016, Calgary's top wine professionals tell us about their love for Sherry.

https://www.metrovino.com/wine-journal/calgarys-top-wine-professionals-speak

Julie Van Rosendale writer for CBC tells us about her visit to Metrovino and why Sherry has always been hip.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/food-city-richard-harvey-1.3837262