{"id":14025,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/how-do-you-find-a-dark-sherry-at-a-reasonable-price"},"modified":"2018-02-09T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:26:16","slug":"how-do-you-find-a-dark-sherry-at-a-reasonable-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/en\/how-do-you-find-a-dark-sherry-at-a-reasonable-price","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Find a Dark Sherry at a Reasonable Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Price is one of the reasons you have to sip sherry. Not wanting to be hospitalised is another, but we would all finish our bottles faster if we knew we could inexpensively pick up another good batch. It\u2019s even worse with dark sherry<\/strong>, which are usually more expensive. But help is at hand, as our guide tells you what to look for, and where to look for a dark sherry<\/strong><\/a> at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n

What Drives Up the Price of Dark Sherry?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There isn\u2019t a secret tax on tastiness. Dark sherry is just given more time to mature. Amontillados and Olorosos can spend 10 years maturing in the barrel, but the really good stuff is sometimes matured for 25 years. The bodegas have to factor in the cost of all that warehousing. What\u2019s more, grape production is at a premium in Jerez, the sherry producing region, and these days many of the grapes that make PX, the wine that sweetens sherry, are shipped in. They can come from Montilla<\/a> or M\u00e1laga, but the haulage costs all add up. Of course, each country has its own taxes to apply. In Britain, wine that might cost pence abroad has so much tax added to it that it you wouldn\u2019t get many pounds change from a twenty. Added to that, sherries are branded wines. Because each bodega blends to create its own particular taste, you\u2019re paying for the perceived value of that particular sherry house too, and then there are all the other costs of making a sherry on top.<\/p>\n

How to Tell Good Cheap Sherry from Bad Cheap Sherry<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you really wanted to, you could buy cheap dark sherry easily. The trick is to find cheap dark sherry that\u2019s also delicious. To do that, you can look out for a few things on the side of the bottle:<\/p>\n