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Amontillado

[ UK /ˌæməntɪlˈɑːdə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. pale medium-dry sherry from Spain

How To Use Amontillado In A Sentence

  • Fino is always dry, and after long aging, it might be bottled as an Amontillado.
  • With soup, try a tangy fino or nutty, dry amontillado.
  • Pale, dry fino and amontillado style wines are made from free-run juice, while heavier styles similar to oloroso are made from the subsequent pressings.
  • With soup, try a tangy fino or nutty, dry amontillado.
  • Taste-wise, it feels more like a dry oloroso than amontillado, revealing, as it does, a dark, nutty, chocolate bite on the palate and a finish that delivers waves of salted hazelnuts.
  • Try manzanilla or fino with fish, dry oloroso and amontillado with cheese, ham and game, and sweet oloroso and Pedro Ximenez with sweets and fruit.
  • Fewer scales are needed to produce a consistent amontillado or oloroso sherry than a fino or manzanilla sherry because these fuller, richer wines vary less from year to year.
  • If not breakfast, they should at least give him a sip of Amontillado for his efforts.
  • Now I admit I may have written this under the influence of just a little too much amontillado but, nevertheless, you be the judge; read a few of his earlier delicious posts for a fuller and ‘Scottishly’ superb flavour
  • You jest " he exclaimed recoiling a few paces . " But let us proceed to the Amontillado.
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