Fernando de Castilla Antique Amontillado - Virgin Wines

An aged, dry dark sherry from Virgin Wines

Sherry is a much under-appreciated drink and all the better value for it - if you have not yet discovered sherry, where have you been?

It comes in all sorts of styles from pale and bone dry to dark and lusciously sweet, with pretty much all points in between.

This Amontillado is dark and bone dry - a complex aperitif wine rather than something for dessert.

Dinner-party fact: amontillado sherry begins as a fino or Manzanilla, then ages in contact with air becoming darker and more complex; it gains flavour first from the flor (a yeast that grows on the fino) and then from oxidative aging.

Fernando de Castilla Antique Amontillado (£25.99) fragrant and aromatic with mixed fruit and roasted spices, roasted nuts and orange peel. Concentrated and complex with tangy, bone-dry freshness.

Very Good.

Match with olives, Manchego, Serrano ham and bread with olive oil.