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What does amontillado mean?

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Noun
  1. A pale, dry sherry from Montilla.
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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.
Pale, dry fino and amontillado style wines are made from free-run juice, while heavier styles similar to oloroso are made from the subsequent pressings.
Did it matter that he was mixing the precious cortado with the amontillado?
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.
They examined more closely the bottles they'd liberated: Johnnie Walker, Tia Maria, Cinzano, amontillado sherry.
Never can I say that my case is desperate while you can swallow your chicken-broth and sip your amontillado sherry.

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