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Sherry rules change

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Jancis Robinson
Monday 21 October 2024
Sanlucar de Barrameda, one of the three major sherry towns

Sherry no longer has to be fortified. Out goes fino aged in Sanlúcar (pictured above). In comes Fino Viejo. And so on.

During my two trips to sherry country in the far south of Spain last September and last May I became aware of several changes to the regulations which may be of interest to wine students and sherry aficionados (who are still too thin on the ground in my opinion).

A few significant changes came into effect in late 2022 and are now in place.

Before then wines had to be aged in one of the three sherry towns...