Rebujito

Rebujito is a sherry highball from Andalusia, Spain, made by mixing fino or manzanilla sherry with lemon-lime soda. Its name comes from the Spanish verb arrebujar, meaning to mix or wrap up. The drink is closely associated with Andalusian ferias, and some accounts trace its first documented appearance to the Corpus Christi festival in Granada in 1985, though it is best known as the signature drink of the Feria del Caballo in Jerez de la Frontera and the Feria de Abril in Seville, where it spread widely in the 1990s.

Historians and drinks writers link the Rebujito to the 19th-century American Sherry Cobbler, a mix of sherry, citrus, sugar, and sparkling water that became hugely popular in Victorian-era England and, by extension, in the sherry-producing region of Jerez itself. A Jerez newspaper writer, José Luis Jiménez García, argued in 2007 that the Rebujito grew directly out of that earlier Sherry Cobbler tradition, noting that many Andalusians assumed their local drink was wholly original without realizing the Cobbler had come before it. Other drinks experts view the resemblance more loosely, as a natural convergence within the broader family of sherry-and-soda highballs rather than a direct descendant. The Rebujito's popularity outside Andalusia grew from the mid-1990s onward, aided in part by promotional efforts from sherry producers seeking to introduce the wine to younger drinkers.