What is oloroso?
Oloroso is the name of an alcoholic beverage also known as sherry or fortified wine. Sherry is produced by fermenting white grapes and then by adding brandy, which is a distilled wine with a high alcohol content. oloroso is the Spanish word for "fragrant" and is considered one of the rich flavored gloom due to its aging process. Sherry is intentionally oxidized or exposed to air, which is assumed that the finished product will be darker and sweeter than other fortified wines. Oloroso wine was described as a walnut taste and have hints of vanilla, fruit and caramel. Olorosos are often paired with hard cheeses or olives and are served as an aperitif before eating, drinking alcoholic beverage before eating to stimulate appetite. Dry Oloroso is considered the best served chilled, while the sweeter area usually serves closer to the room temperature.
Most olorosos are made in Andalucia ine Spain. It is a region, they say some historians who have produced fortified wine for more than 1,000 years. Three types of white grapes used to produce Olorosos are palamines for dry sherries, moscalers, diversity used for sweeter sherms and a type called pedro ximenes, a very sweet grape used in small quantities that mix with others for creams. Pedro Ximinez, or PX Olorosos, are the strongest of the darkness and are more often used as a dessert sauce than as a drink.
Spanish shero shoes are aged in oak barrels called Botas for at least three years and a maximum of several decades. The method that the shoes are stacked is traditionally called Solera. The barrels are placed in the shape of a pyramid with older ones at the bottom. Oloroso will pour them out of the oldest shoes, called the boot sole and the barrel closer to the upper part with the newer wine fill the lower barrel. There is no vintage year on the OLOROSO bottle, as part of the wine can be hundreds of years old and the second part can be very young.
oloroso can beAlso use as sherry cooking. Small meals called Tapas with drinks in restaurants called Tapas Bars are served in Spanish cuisine. There are many tapes of meals that use olorosos in the sauce. They are also often drunk alone or are paired with cured Spanish masses such as Jamon, ham from Serran.