Fortified Wine: Sherry, Port, Madeira, and the Style Between Still and Spirits

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fortified wine sits in a curious place. It is wine, but it behaves differently from the bottle you pour with roast chicken or pasta. It can be pale and bone dry, dark and sweet, amber and nutty, herbal and bitter, or old enough in flavor that it seems to come from a pantry rather than a vineyard. A single shelf might hold Fino Sherry, Tawny Port, Madeira, Marsala, and vermouth, and all of them belong to the same broad family because spirit has been added to wine.

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Fortified Wine: Sherry, Port, Madeira, and the Style Between Still and Spirits