Cocktails with Amontillado sherry
Amontillado sherry is a dry, amber-hued sherry that ages first biologically under flor, then oxidatively, giving it more depth than Fino but less weight than Oloroso.
ABV16–19%
Substitutes for Amontillado sherry
Sherry is a scale from bone-dry and saline to heavy and nutty, and this one sits in the middle. Moving either way costs you the balance rather than the character: lighter brings salt and freshness, heavier brings weight and less delicacy.
On the label
- amontillado
- A fino whose flor has died or been deliberately killed, then aged in contact with air. That two-stage life is why it holds both a yeasty edge and a nutty depth.
- “dry”
- 1 to 4 grams of sugar per liter. A sweet supermarket “amontillado” is a sweetened blend, not the classified style.
- VOS / VORS
- Certified average age: VOS is 20 years, VORS is 30.
