What kind of wine is sherry and what grapes are used to make it?

Sherry wine is known as mysterious, beautiful and unique. Simply understand, Sherry is a fortified wine produced in Spain, known as "Spanish sunshine in a bottle", and Sherry is the name of the town.

Yuncang Winery’s brand LEESON red wine shares the main traditional grape variety for brewing sherry wine. 95 % of Sherry is made from Palomino grapes, the rest are planted with some Padro Simone grapes and a small amount of Misca grapes, which are mainly used for brewing sweet Sherry. The grapes are usually spread on hay mats and placed in the hot sun to evaporate the water from the grapes and turn them into thicker and sweeter raisins. The wine produced in this way is sweet and rich.

Yuncang winery's brand LEESON red wine sharing sherry is generally divided into dry sherry, natural sweet sherry and sweetened sherry.

Dry sherry, with a white film floating on the surface during the brewing process, the wine is light lemon in color, with a light spicy taste, usually suitable for drinking as early as possible when young. There are also aged sherry wines, which are brown in body and have flavors of toffee, spice, leather, walnut and so on.

Naturally sweet sherry, generally high in sugar, made from sun-dried grapes, with aromas of coffee, licorice and dried fruit.

Sweetened sherry. According to the color, it can be divided into light-colored sweetened type, semi-sweetened type, and sweetened type. The light-colored sweetened type is sweetened after distillation with concentrated grape juice. High-quality sherry wine will use Pedro Ximenez wine It can be sweetened with liquid, and can balance the aromas in dry Sherry and sweet Sherry, that is, it contains aromas of toffee, leather, walnut and dried fruit.

Sherry is usually drunk with meals, dry sherry with full-flavored dishes; sweet sherry can be drunk alone or with desserts.