As promised, I want to share some tasting notes and producer information for the three Almacenista sherries I sampled at the recent “Taste of Revolution” event.

Sporting some seriously Che Guevara-like facial hair and carrying a pocket full of cured meat and salted almonds Fernando, our rep from T. Edward Wines, began a very special tasting of Almacenista sherries with the chant: Viva la Revolución!

I studied Spanish in high school and college and in 1985 spent a couple of months wandering around the Iberian Peninsula. On the trip, I discovered that Sherry (Jerez as it is called in Spain) is not the sickly sweet beverage that my grandmother sometimes enjoyed.