| At last Sainsbury's has overhauled its fortified wine range and among the new offerings this manzanilla is the star turn. |
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| They had three type of manzanilla sherry on the wine list but none in stock and tried to fob us off with white port. |
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| There are typically nine to 14 criaderas in a solera system although some manzanilla sherries can be made from as many as 19 tiers. |
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| For me, a litre bottle of a top manzanilla is a must buy whenever I'm passing through an airport. |
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| Fewer scales are needed to produce a consistent amontillado or oloroso sherry than a fino or manzanilla sherry because these fuller, richer wines vary less from year to year. |
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| Fino and manzanilla are the most fragile of the sherries, but if you keep them refrigerated, they should be fine for cooking for a couple of weeks. |
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| Try manzanilla or fino with fish, dry oloroso and amontillado with cheese, ham and game, and sweet oloroso and Pedro Ximenez with sweets and fruit. |
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| As long as the manzanilla remains in the cask, it is protected by the flor, the film of yeast that is specific to solera-ageing. |
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| The main styles of sherries, listed from driest and palest to sweetest and darkest are fino, manzanilla, amontillado, oloroso, cream, and Pedro Ximénez. |
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| It is made from a selection of arbequina, manzanilla and lechin olives. |
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| You were not being boondoggled into buying sherry, but invited to join a thoughtful conversation about the relative merits of amontillado and manzanilla. |
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| The seaweed snap of a island whisky, the complex notes of a cognac, the salty edge of a bone dry manzanilla, the plummy flavours of a southern Italian red. |
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| But in Spain, sherry reigns and it's easy to see why with a glass of crisp fi no or manzanilla in your hand as the sun beats down or the barbie smoke drifts over the lawn. |
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| Fino Sherry, and its more nimble sibling Manzanilla, famously accompanies many tapas, whether it's Serrano ham, grilled squid or patatas bravas. |
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| We waited an age to be served and I finally placed an order for a glass of Manzanilla sherry. |
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| The barrels that form the flor cap can become Fino, Manzanilla or Amontillado, but they are all marked out by a bracing, pungent dryness. |
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| Fino and Manzanilla age beneath healthy layers flor and are therefore the crispest and brightest. |
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| That operatic temptress Carmen enjoyed the odd glass of Manzanilla. |
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