| 单词 | amontillado sherry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasamontillado sherry Formerly: †a wine of the sherry type produced in Montilla (see Montilla n.) (obsolete). Now: a type of sherry, generally dry or medium dry in flavour, which has undergone a period of biological ageing (under a layer of flor: see flor n.) followed by a period of oxidative ageing (through exposure of the liquid surface to the air), or a sherry which has been blended to resemble this. Also more fully amontillado sherry. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry > types of sherry doctor1770 antimonial wine1771 Montilla1793 Paxarete1802 pale sherry1803 amontillado1804 golden sherry1830 manzanilla1843 fino1846 Bristol milk1848 brown sherry1849 solera1851 amoroso1859 brown1862 oloroso1876 Bristol cream1886 Tio Pepe1886 cream sherry1964 1804 Morning Post 8 Feb. 4/2 (advt.) The Valuable Cellar..consisting of Port, Claret..Sherry, Amontillado [etc.]. 1824 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Oct. 130 The driest species of Sherry is the Amontillado. 1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines vi. 190 The wine called Amontillado is not always the product of design. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. ix. 325 A certain quantity of the drier Amontillado, from the hill districts of Montilla. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. vii. 337 They drank an Amontillado sherry, a bottle of Château Yquem, and some very good Cockburn's port. 2007 Metro 4 July (London ed.) 26/3 The cheeses—Idiazabal and..manchego—slip down perfectly with some almondy amontillado. < as lemmas |
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