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The latter's subsidiary International Distillers & Vintners owned Justerini & Brooks, Baileys Irish Cream, Gilbey's gin, Piat wine and Croft sherry and port brands, as well as the European and Commonwealth rights to Smirnoff vodka. [1] It changed its name to Grand Metropolitan in 1973. [1]
Sherry also had to compete with the new wave of "Sherry-like" wines being produced in South Africa, the United States, Australia, France and Germany. [1] Then came the almost inevitable attack of the phylloxera plague. At the turn of the 20th century, Sherry merchants worked to replant their devastated vineyards and reclaim lost ground in the ...
Single malt whisky aged in sherry casks is regarded by some as a special category with its own aficionados. This category usually refers to whether the whisky was finished (aged first in another cask and then transferred to an Oloroso cask or butt for finishing), or fully matured (taken directly off the still and matured entirely in a cask that ...
Sherry (Spanish: jerez) is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the city of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain [citation needed]. Sherry ...
By the 1960s, Britain was consuming 13.6 million litres of Cyprus wines, half the island's production, mostly as sweet sherry. A British market research study of fortified wines in 1978 showed Emva Cream was the leading Cyprus sherry in terms of brand recognition, and second in that market only to Harveys' Bristol Cream. [22]
Croft (land), a small area of land, often with a crofter's dwelling Crofting , small-scale food production Bleachfield , an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, also called a croft
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An Amontillado sherry begins as a fino, fortified to approximately 15.5% alcohol with a cap of flor yeast limiting its exposure to the air. A cask of fino is considered to be amontillado if the layer of flor fails to develop adequately, is intentionally killed by additional fortification, or is allowed to die off through non-replenishment.