Sherry
a favorite Spanish wine, prepared from small white grapes grown in the province of Andalusia, those which furnish the better qualities being cultiqualities being_cultivated in the vineyards of Xeres. In the manufacture of sherry the grapes are not gathered till they are quite ripe, and the fermentation is continued till nearly all the sugar has been converted into alcohol. Sherries may be divided into natural, containing from 20 to 26 per cent. of proof spirit, and fortified, containing from SHERZER 30 to 40 per cent. Sherry is used in many of the wines of the pharmacopeia, as Vinum ferri, etc.