Dry Fino Sherry, widely available, £8-ish

Brine, more parched than dry, lemon, nutty, very clean and precise.

I want to like it, I try to, just can’t, it does very little for me.

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Good that you want to and completely understandable that you don't. My chemo palate has turned this into poison so I suppose some people just taste that on a normal day.

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Yeah, I didn't want to run down this dry sherry yesterday. But yes.
I think Tio Pepe has gone off a bit in recent years. It is ok with exactly the right foods, and with ice.
It is a bit too parched and too grainy for many palates, and I did not rave over it last time, due to the tuning of my ripe Beaune, ripe Chablis palate.

Open for more than two weeks and not kept in the fridge, and the wine goes downhill very rapidly. I believe Gonzales Biaz [spelling] need to update the style to a wine that has a bit more fruit and a more subtle nutty very light oak appeal. Perhaps that's not possible to produce ?

I have tasted dry'ish Andalusian wines, when in Competa which were nicer in my book......yeah with great Adalusian cooking - but I would have to see whether it is me changing over the years, and not the style of the wine.

Dead sorry about the onslaught on your taste buds Mel - Being positive tho -Things can only get better from here

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Tio Pepe is not the wine to kick-start a sherry revolution IMO.

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while on the topic of fortifieds.... has anyone given Marsala a go ?

I bought a bottle of Pellegrino Marsala Superiore Dry as Mrs Shez was making a Tiramisu. She didn't like it so opted to use Tia maria for the dessert instead leaving me with an open bottle of Marsala


I've only had the opportunity for a small sample of it so far but coming from the fridge it was a nice accompaniment to olives and crisps.
I also had a drop with oven roasted salmon with dill mustard sauce and didn't find it an offensive combination either

Pretty similar to sherry and all in all pretty good for £4.50 for 37.5cl

I like the sweet Pellegrino, delish!

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nearly picked up the Dolce originally but figured not the right option for the Tiranisu.

Assuming it's not as sweet as as PX ? Took me 6 months to drink about a quarter of a 37.5 bottle and ditched the rest - far too sweet and tarry for me ! Was a real struggle

No, not quite as sticky as a PX but certainly one for those with a sweet tooth, like me. Its the Port drinker in me, love the sweet fruit.

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ddon't get me wrong, I can do sweet but that took the bisccuit.

So is your signature is reference to Napolean Dynamite then or your love of sweet fortified wine ?

A wolf in donkey's clothing

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ND, watched it again on Film4 the other night, crack's me up!

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