Author: by Talia Baiocchi
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Price: $25
Last year Peter Liem and Jesús Barquín published the essential wine geek’s guide to Sherry. This year Talia Baiocchi, who runs the drinks site Punch.com, has put out the essential Sherry guide for the rest of us. First she lays out the facts on what it is, how it’s made and who makes it well, then she details the myriad ways in which it’s delicious. Purists might be o ended by the idea of Sherry in cocktails, but the cocktails she’s collected from bartenders in the US and abroad open a wild world of saline, palate-whetting drinks. Most essentially, Baiocchi devotes an entire chapter to what to do with the bottles of Sherry you collect: Make some food and drink them. Start with the recipe for almonds spiked with cumin and paprika—stupid easy and addictively delicious with any bottle you have open.
is W&S’s editor at large and covers the wines of the Mediterranean and Central and Eastern Europe for the magazine.
This story appears in the print issue of Winter 2014.
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