Sherry Wines

Top quality, small producer with a distinctive ‘swishing’ effortless palate style ... kinda like a Mark Waugh cover drive, but with no lazy edges! They also produce arguably Spain’s finest brandy, and excellent vinegars. Very old, but nervy ma...

This is a new blend from those wonderful old Swan Valley wines. The solero goes back to 1965 allowing it to pick up extraordinary richness and complexity. Lavish amounts of toffee, raisin and honey on a thoroughly luscious palate. A glorious expre...

Sweet white style with raisined fruit and nice aged characters, but has freshness.

After 10 hours of tasting one day, I got to this and couldn't stop sipping on it. Extraordinary wine with a fresh honey and vanillin toffee-like aroma. The delicious unctuous complex palate is quite stunning with its deep raisiny honey-like comple...

Bright mid-gold; the bouquet has a lovely touch of honey over the bite of the rancio; the very elegant, very fresh palate finishes distinctly dry after the mellowness of the bouquet and mid-palate. This is as it should be.

Finally, the notoriously misguided Seppelt marketing department has done something right. Sepp's sherries - the dry tangy Fino, nutty Amontillado and rich, complex Oloroso - are the best in Australia. Knocking the price down to 20 bucks and dressi...

Another good sherry from the small Lamonts winery in Western Australia, this is also a fine example of the medium-dry, pale-brown amontillado style, but without quite as much complexity or finesse as the reserve (see page opposite).

As we said on the page opposite, we didn't quite like this as much as the cheaper Bookmark dry sherry in our tastings, because we found it a bit too winey - there was just a tad too much fullness and fruitiness to make it a great example of bone-d...

This is a delicate fino with pale straw colour, dried apricots and rancio aromas on the nose, is clean and lively with intense, nutty flavours, a hint of sweetness and refreshing acidity on the finish.

George Chaffey pioneered irrigation on the Murray River and saw the potential of the region for viticulture. His persistence in the face of overwhelming adversity laid much of the foundation for the successful development of the heartland of the A...

This fino style has been produced by Mildara for just over 50 years and is sourced from pedro ximinez, palomino and doradillo grown at Sunraysia. It is produced in much the same way as the George, but, instead of being fermented until bone dry, it...

Mildara's chairman of the day, Melbourne businessman George Caro, had to follow a sugar-free diet and so was unable to enjoy winemaker Ron Haselgrove's Supreme Sherry when it made its successful debut in 1949. Consequently, one year later, ten doz...

The packaging is outstanding and brings sherry, as it were, out of the closet. The McWilliams Amontillado has a very pale gold-bronze colour; light, powdery, nutty aromas; sweet malt, toffee and nut flavours and a tangy, dry finish.

This is a less penetrating, more 'winey' sherry style than the best Spanish examples or Aussie wines like Seppelt. The full nose still has good nutty characters derived from flor yeast and oak age, but it's not as savoury as the best. The softer, ...

The colour is medium-light orange/amber and the bouquet shows some vestiges of nutty flor yeast character, with some seaside tang plus a little meatiness. The taste is lean, medium-long and very arid. It would make a good aperitif as it gets the d...

Light straw-yellow; penetrating floor aromas which almost defy description, having a penetrating mineral and nutty aroma. The flavour is almost tingling in its dryness, and now has the combination of delicacy and pungency of the top Spanish Finos ...

No question that this is easy to like: sweet butterscotch, toffee and treacle flavours and a sweetish finish.

Another surprise packet from Angove's; this is soft, gentle, viscous and sweet yet with a dryish finish.

Fresh and gentle rancio character, deeply flavoured, viscous with some weight and a cleansing finish that prevents the sweetness from cloying.

Amazingly, on the day of our tasting, we preferred this extremely cheap dry sherry to Angoves' more expensive version (the Fino, reviewed on the page opposite). We found this had more classic chalky dryness and a lovely tangy, sea-spray lightness ...