Cocktails with Pedro Ximénez sherry
Pedro Ximénez sherry is a naturally sweet, dark fortified wine of the Jerez-Xérès-Sherry appellation, made predominantly from sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes.
ABV18%
Taste profile
Intensely sweet and syrupy, layered with raisin, fig, date, molasses and grape syrup, with a natural acidity — also concentrated during raisining — that keeps the sweetness from turning cloying.
How it's used
Sweetening and adding dark, viscous body, it is stirred or built in small measures; its syrupy weight means a little goes far and it needs working into a drink to integrate.
Substitutes for Pedro Ximénez sherry
Another dark, sweet oxidative sherry or a raisiny sweet fortified wine of similar syrupy weight.
Often confused with
Pedro Ximénez sherry is a single-variety naturally sweet wine (vino dulce natural) whose sweetness comes entirely from sun-dried grapes; cream sherry is a blended sweetened style (vino generoso de licor) built on a dry base wine such as Oloroso or Amontillado and sweetened with PX/Moscatel or concentrated must.
