When I lived in Australia, I came across this exotic drop, in an out of the way wine bar in Melbourne.
I'd all but forgotten about it, but was asked recently what the oldest wine was I'd ever drunk, it was then that my memory recollected this wine. For some reason, which I'm yet to find out, there was available at the time some very old examples of this sherry, the glass or three that I had at this wine bar was from the late 1800's! And what is more, tasted amazing.
So what is Black Sherry?
It is indeed a Sherry and is produced from the Pedro Ximenez grape, consequently in Europe it is more commonly known as PX or Pedro Ximenez. It is produced by laying the grapes in the sun until they dry and shrivel, concentrating the sugar content before being fermented and aged in solera.
PX is a really unusual wine, being thick, almost gloopy, the darkest of caramel, and the most wonderful treacle taste. Some suggest it should accompany desert, I think it is desert. Why ruin it by drinking it with some food, it's way too good for that!
What a great name, I wish I'd come up with it, but I didn't. Leland
did, far better than encyclowine, which has somehow killed all the
romance of wine in one single stroke. It sounds like some
hightech bike!
This is the name that encyclowine should have come up with.
Ach well. Anyway hopefully this will grow, and become the home to
all things wine. I suppose the only problem might be, whether
anyone will go to it if wikipedia can offer exactly the same thing and
doesn't suffer the gaps that encyclowine does.
It will need to build it's critical mass, but I'll add to it,
probably filling it with loads of useless bits of information that
interest me!
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