Spanish Sherry Club™ This is not your Grandmothers cooking Sherry!
Blend Your Own Sherry™ will probably become the most interesting consumer movement and give Sherry a much needed Rebirth!
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MY OWN BLEND™ - Concept & Copyright
SherryMan is the first to offer Sherry Blending directly to consumers
I promise that you will love Sherry from that moment and probably wnerry. There are also Sherry tours in the Golden Triangle of Jerez de la Frontera - Puerto Santa Maria and Sanlucar de Barrameda, but they all offer the same; a visit to the bodega to see the Sherry Casks and the tour ending with a tasting of their different products. Nobody have ever thought about a workshop involving the consumers in the actual process of blending sherry to match their preferred flavour profile and taste butts. Much less blending different Sherries from different bodegas. This is where SherryMan™ and Spanish Sherry Club comes into the picture, because 98% of all sherries are blended! Some are blended with real wine, while others are blended with cheaper rectified concentrated must or liquid sugars (almíbar) to keep the price down - You will learn to taste the difference!
For a very long time Sherry has been greatly misunderstood, and most of the blame lies in the perception of it in its export markets. Here, merchants have traditionally sold blends of different types of Sherry, rather than the unblended product of a particular solera, to match their idea of the public taste and pocket. The results tasted different from the wine in its natural state - which most people had never tasted - and led to widespread assumptions that, for example, Amontillado is medium and darker wine is sweet – indeed many often thought that all Sherry was sweet. As tastes moved towards dryer wines this misconception was an important contributory factor to Sherry’s plummeting sales!
SherryMan™ will ensure you try the real solera wines at our "Speed tasting" Ham & Sherry Masterclass™ and get a quick introduction on how to blend Pale Cream, Medium and Cream without added sugar!
Sherry & Whisky
Facts about real and fake Sherry Casks plus legal and illegal whisky and rum
Nothing goes more hand in hand than whisky and Sherry casks. These old casks became the single most important flavor profile for the whisky industry. Every whisky distillery around the world like to write Sherry Cask on their labels, but the problem is that the demand is much higher than the actual amount of original old Sherry casks in circulation, so a lot of fake casks and new cask with bad wine are produced. Even old decomissioned Sherry casks in Scotland were returned to Spain and refilled with "Sherry" for a short period to get the "right" smell and then sold again as old original Sherry casks!
You can learn much more about that from www.SherryCasks.es.
Many distilleries are desperate to get the Sherry cask flavor in their whisky without putting in the time and money needed!
This American whiskey company simply decided just to add Oloroso Sherry to their whisky batch before bottling to save time and money. This is apparently legal in US but very illegal in Europe! Until 1990 Scottish whisky producers used to add the now banned Pajarete to their casks (a former "Sherry" type now exiciled from Jeréz to Malaga as its not much more than cooked and reduced grape juice with added alcohol). One particular whisky distillery in Spain has defrauded consumers all over Europe the last 10 years by adding PX Sherry and other flavor inhanching aromas to their rum and whisky but never told consumers about it, because it's illegal. I have reported them to both Sante Food Fraud in Brussels and the Spanish authorities.
You can read more about that here:
Many dubious Spanish cask producers have invented all kinds of "Sherry" casks to profit on the names like Amontillado, Oloroso or the most famous of them all Pedro Ximénez(PX).
Due to high demand and lack of original old Sherry Casks, Rafa from Casknolia came up with a much hyped marketing concept of just making "Sherry" casks from new oak and young wines, in many cases not even real Sherry from The Golden Triangle. Spanish Whisky Club® bought and tried all the new "Sherry" casks from Casknolia and to me this is nothing but the Emperor's New Clothes.
If you want real original old certified Sherry casks, I can highly recommend two companies: Hector from Southern Casks in Puerto Santa Maria and Tonelería Juan Pino in Montilla. Not to be confused with Tonelería del Sur(Casknolia) as they are both operating out of the same town between Malaga and Córdoba. In the pictures below you can see Juan Pino demonstrate a real certified Sherry cask. See this amazing video on YouTube from when I picked out a random certified Sherry cask to be opened up. If your Sherry cask don't look like that inside it's not AUTHENTIC, end of story!
What you see in the pictures below is residue from 50-100 years of settlements in old Sherry casks. This can not be immitated in new industrial Sherry casks aged for a few months often with a quality of wine which is deemed "not drinkable" and later used for Vinagre del Jeréz or distilled to brandy!
Residue in sherry casks, often found as sediment or haze in finished whiskies, comes from the sherry wine that previously aged in the wood. This residue contains flavor compounds like sugars, esters, and phenols, which contribute sweet, fruity, and spicy notes to the whisky. While some might see it as a flaw, it's a natural consequence of using sherry casks and a sign of a more traditional, less filtered approach to whisky production. Again a more authentic product.
My Sherry blending masterclass always ends with a professional real life hack of a standard bottle of whisky. You will taste and learn how to simulate 10 years of cask aging in 10 minutes with only 3 special components. Of course this life hack can not substitute the aging of spirits in certified original old Sherry casks! But it can save consumers a lot of money against age statements and label confusions on whisky and rum bottles from around the world.
If you have any questions just ask me. I'm also the president of the Spanish Whisky Club® and if you are interested in whisky visit my website BestSpanishWhisky.com
Whisky Wants Sherry, So Should You!
Amazing afternoon with Juan Pino
What can Spanish Sherry Club offer?
Ham & Sherry
Sherry Samples
Ham & Sherry
Ham & Sherry Masterclass™ - the two biggest Spanish icons as corporate event, workshop and for teambuilding. Amazing tasting experience with introduction to hand-carved Pata Negra and all the different Sherry wines plus how to pair and blend them. Visit PataNegra.dk to learn more!
My Own Blend
Sherry Samples
Ham & Sherry
Come and spend some amazing time with us in Jerez. You will have access to unlimited Sherry wines of all types in order to make your favorite blend(s) from hundreds of combinations! First in the world concept of involving consumers in the blending and filing of their own Sherry bottles with their favorite blends.
Sherry Samples
Sherry Samples
Sherry Samples
World of Sherry™ monthly membership club with 10 amazing Sherry samples from all the different bodegas in 50ml bottles for you to try.
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Cooking with Sherry
Paella with Amontillado is our favorite!
Simply add 1/4 of your glass of Amontillado to your plate of Paella and drink the rest together with the dish. During our Sherry blending classes we proudly serve this most famous Spanish national dish.
The range of sherry styles is very broad but when to use dry or sweet in food?
Dry styles (such as fino and manzanilla) are excellent in soups; Cream based soups like asparagus or broccoli especially or used to steam fish and shellfish.
Medium sherries (including amontillado and oloroso) are excellent for slow-cooking poultry and meat dishes and for de-glazing cooking pans to make quick sauces.
Sweet styles (such as cream and pale cream) are a must for trifle and other desserts, while the very sweetest (Pedro Ximénez), made from semi-dried grapes, is great over ice cream and with blue cheese or simply enjoyed in small sips with piece of dark bitter chocolate. PX is also great as glace for roasted ham or chicken wings.
Contact
SherryMan ™
Spanish Sherry Club ™
Rep. office: C. Fernando Viola 15, 11405 Jerez de la Frontera
Cadiz, Spain
Tel. +34 662 331 908
jan@sherryman.com
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