Amontillado is in between, as are manzanilla, oloroso and others.

The merchants began to call this wine oloroso meaning "pungent".

The older the oloroso, the longer it will stay perfect for consumption, as much as 12 months.

That juice is typically used to make oloroso sherry.

But he said he might suggest a sweet white wine or an oloroso sherry.

For dinner, we headed to popular rooftop restaurant Oloroso.

Above 16% and the flor can not survive, the wine essentially becoming an oloroso.

You will find two principal types: fino and oloroso.

I was also tempted by the wild boar in semisweet oloroso sherry.

In the 1930s his oloroso won the first of 13 successive Australian Champion awards.

Sherries come in two broad types, fino and oloroso.

It was a fine oloroso sherry, Leo's favorite.

An oloroso is a good after-dinner drink.

The prize is a bottle of Matusalem Oloroso sherry.

The 12 year old bottlings are available only in portwoord and oloroso finishes, the others have no special finishes.

Oloroso: Aged, dark mahogany or topaz colour is due to the slow oxidization of the base wine.

When flor fails to appear, the wine is destined to oxidize and turn into a rich, full-bodied oloroso.

One maker has compared fino to almond, amontillado to hazelnut and oloroso to walnut.

-An oloroso, on the other hand, is a heavy, dark dessert wine, which is sweetened before being sold.

Some amontillado, oloroso and palo cortado sherries are also dry (read the label or taste first).

This is deep amber, nutty and lingering on the tongue, but a properly dry oloroso, whistle-clean and fresh.

Not a rich oloroso, perhaps, but either a dry, cold palate-cleansing fino, or a medium dry amontillado would be appropriate.

There is also palo cortado, a high-quality aged sherry with characteristics of both sweet oloroso and full, nutty amontillado.

"Fino is too dry, oloroso too sweet.

Those wines that are classified to undergo aging as Oloroso are fortified to reach an alcohol content of at least 17 per cent.