Remember those big sherry bottles with a round at the neck that lets you lift them? Sherry was a drink for green widows and housewives in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Also famous is the so-called sherry diet, which went hand in hand with binge-drinking housewives. While drinking, they lost weight; or at least they thought so. But sherry is an artisanal product - a fortified wine - from a region that covers only 7,000 hectares. Sherry is something unique. - TEXT CHARLOTTE VAN ZUMMEREN | IMAGE EDITORS
Exploring the Spanish Sherry Triangle
'Is it an old wives' drink now?' The person asking the question looks at me somewhat bashfully. We are on the bus with a group of journalists to the sherry region of Spain. And clearly, sherry has a certain reputation. A reputation that makes the younger generation consider it a drink for women of age.
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And that is completely unjustified. Sherry and its counterpart manzanilla are unique products of a special terroir. Several varieties of sherry are made on just 7,000 hectares, supplying the whole world here. The Bordeaux wine region alone has 100,000 hectares, you can imagine. In Spain, they call sherry Jerez, after the region's capital Jerez de la Frontera. It used to be widely exported to England, where it was bastardised into sherry. In England, all fortified wines from Spain used to be called sack, and sherry was so called sherris sack. At some point, that sack fell off and they were talking about sherry from now on.
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