{"id":13967,"date":"2017-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/can-you-still-buy-sack-wine"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:44:47","slug":"can-you-still-buy-sack-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/en\/can-you-still-buy-sack-wine","title":{"rendered":"Can you still buy sack wine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSack wine\u201d is one of those funny old wine terms that pops up now and again, and is largely misunderstood. <\/b>The history of sack wine goes back to somewhere around the 1500s, and the phrase pops up in history books and import\/export documents alike. Sack wine<\/strong> in the classical sense is no longer available, though. With the exception of <\/span>Dry Sack Sherry<\/span><\/a> and other specific wine brands with the word \u201csack\u201d in their titles, sack wine is a thing of the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broadly speaking, sack wine referring to <\/span>fortified wine<\/span><\/a> of varying origins, most notably Spain and the Canary Islands. The etymology of the phrase \u201csack wine\u201d is a little contentious, with a number of conflicting theories out there as to how the name came about. The best known types of sack wine included:<\/span><\/p>\n