What's the difference between amontillado and sherry?

Amontillado


Definition:

  • (n.) A dry kind of cherry, of a light color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's no surprise that the wines that work best with them (a salty, richly savoury dry amontillado sherry for the pie; a crisp dry white with a herbal twist such as vermentino or grüner veltliner for the salad) are about as different as two wines get.

Sherry


Definition:

  • (n.) A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
  • (2) Using thiophosphorylated gizzard myosin, Sherry et al.
  • (3) Analysis of commercial food products gave sulfite levels ranging from 1400 ppm in dried apple slices to 25 ppm in cream sherry.
  • (4) As an alcoholic in long-term sobriety – on Christmas Day 1991, he was distracted from throwing himself off Tower Bridge by a friend offering him a glass of sherry, and soon entered recovery – Ferguson said he would not make jokes at the expense of the unwell.
  • (5) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
  • (6) It has been shown (Dabrowska, R., Aromatorio, D., Sherry, J.M.F., and Hartshorne, D.J.
  • (7) Microfibers are also the second most common type of debris in Lake Michigan , according to Sherri Mason’s research.
  • (8) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
  • (9) Sherri Iacobelli, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety, told the Associated Press Newsome and Tyson, 30, also of Charlotte, had been charged with defacing monuments on state capitol grounds, a misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $5,000 and a prison term of up to three years, or both.
  • (10) The 4-14C-1-glutamic acid was used in investigations into the biosynthesis of gamma-lactones in sherries.
  • (11) Aerobic and anaerobic bacterial strains were tested for in vitro susceptibility to doxycycline using a standardized disc-diffusion method according to Eriksson and Sherris.
  • (12) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
  • (13) Poets laureate were given sherry until Henry Pye, in 1790, relinquished his butt in exchange for a £27 yearly fee.
  • (14) She could be the next [former CEO of Paramount] Sherry Lansing – she has the right kind of brain.
  • (15) It's no surprise that the wines that work best with them (a salty, richly savoury dry amontillado sherry for the pie; a crisp dry white with a herbal twist such as vermentino or grüner veltliner for the salad) are about as different as two wines get.
  • (16) They then received a chlorpropamide tablet and sherry again after 12 and 36 hours.
  • (17) Serves 4 4 oranges, 3 segmented with juice reserved, 1 zested and juiced 100ml olive oil, plus 2 tbsp for roasting 8 tinned anchovy fillets plus 1 tbsp of oil 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 tsp fennel seeds, toasted and ground ½ tbsp sherry vinegar 2 heads of fennel, trimmed, cored and cut into quarters lengthways 2 heads of radicchio, cut in half lengthways, cores removed and each half cut into sixths 480g orecchiette pasta A small bunch of chives, chopped 40g parmesan, grated 1 Put a large pan of salted water on to boil.
  • (18) The disk diffusion test described is a modification of the disk test of Bauer, Kirby, Sherris, and Turck, which is widely used for susceptibility testing of fast-growing, aerobic pathogens.
  • (19) Higher concentrations were found in the other alcoholic beverages examined, which included whisky, fruit brandy, liqueur, wine, sherry and port.
  • (20) Click here to buy a copy from the Guardian Bookshop for £17.50 Jose Pizarro’s duck breast with sherry vinegar and olive oil mashed potatoes Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Serves 4 floury potatoes 900g, peeled garlic 4 whole cloves, peeled bay leaf 1 black peppercorns 10 olive oil 6 tbsp salt and pepper sugar 25g sherry vinegar 4 tbsp palo cortado sherry 6 tbsp dried apricots 50g, finely chopped arrowroot ½ tsp duck breasts 4 x 200g, kept cold in the fridge right up until the time you need to use them For the mash, cut the potatoes into large chunks and place in a large pan with plenty of cold water.

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