Tasting - Cream Sherry

 

Name: Cream Sherry
Variety: Cream Sherry 
Country: United States
Region: New York
Vintage: NV (non-vintage)
Price: $ 12.99

Wine Review: Taylor Desserts Cream Sherry is a very dark, robust, and complex wine. Taylor Desserts was founded in 1880 with a seven-acre vineyard overlooking Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. With a special selection of high-quality, sweet, and smooth dessert wines, Taylor is great for cooking or simply enjoying as an after-dinner treat. This cream sherry is sweet with aromas of nuts, toffee, and caramel, which add to the complexity of this fine dessert wine's character. This wine pairs well with desserts, roasted chicken, and glazed ham. By the Influencer. 

Wine Folly: Sherrys are normally made in Spain and can have very different styles. They normally have very high sweetness and use that to balance out the higher alcohol content compared to other wines. The cream sherry that I have here is going to be in the range of 115-140 g/L RS on the sweetness scale (pg 421). 

My Review: Off of first smells I can instantly get strong smells of high sugar content. It is pretty overwhelming how sweet this small glass of wine smells. I can get small hints of some kind of nutty smell, but the sugar is honestly 95% of what I am smelling. The wine has a nice full body and I can tell is extremely well balanced, even though the sugar is a good part of the smell the taste is not that sweet but nice. Then as the aftertaste hits me I feel the warmth of the higher alcohol percentage. I can also get hints of honey or maybe a honey-like substance present in the wine. I had no food with this wine but I could tell it would pair well as a dessert wine. Would drink again!