I use (good) sherry to cook with, and my husband often drinks it.

I prefer port to sherry and will occasionally order it in place of desert at a nice restaurant

Anonymous wrote:It tastes like something that is an excellent addition to a stir fry sauce.

Ha, I just made a stir fry recipe with sherry the other night. It was good!! And my DH loves sherry in creamy crab soup.

I think there's a difference between sherry you cook with and sherry you sip, no? I have cooking sherry and agree that it's sake-like. I recall taking sips of my parents' sherry around Christmas as a child (don't judge!) and thought it was sweet. There was also a church I went to growing up (St. Rose of Lima in Short Hills, NJ) that I'm pretty sure served sherry as the communion wine!

Anonymous wrote:It tastes like something that is an excellent addition to a stir fry sauce.

Yeah, I cook with it. Good in French onion soup and fondue as well.

Anonymous wrote:I like sherry but forget to keep it around. I learned to like it when I lived in England. I find it's similar to sake in some ways.

I agree re sake! My husband (who is fully American) loves sherry and likes a glass after a relaxed meal.

I sometimes like a sherry, dry usually but the sweet reminds me of Christmas, so I like that, too.

I hope I can go to Spain to do tastings someday. Jerez, where it all began, was so lovely.

Anonymous wrote:It tastes like something that is an excellent addition to a stir fry sauce.

I think it can also be added to seafood bisque. My MIL keeps some around for that purpose. I’ve never seen her drink it straight, though.

I like sherry but forget to keep it around. I learned to like it when I lived in England. I find it's similar to sake in some ways.

It tastes like something that is an excellent addition to a stir fry sauce.

Anonymous wrote:What does it taste like?

It tastes kind of oxidised, if you have ever had white wine that has been left open…

What does it taste like?

My Irish 92 yo mom drinks it every night.

Yes, there are a few cooler bars in London that have good sherry choices. It is definitely having a bit of a revival. That said, the taste is a bit of an acquired one.

In older British novels, people were always drinking sherry, particularly at academic “drinks parties”. I’ve literally never seen anyone drink sherry in my life. Do people still drink this?