amontillado

     

Amontillao is a variety of sherry that is darker than fino but lighter than oloroso.

Trivia about amontillado

  • There is no "Cask" of this sherry at the end of the Poe story, only bricks & fresh mortar
  • It's the pale dry sherry in the title of an 1846 Edgar Allan Poe tale
  • In a Poe tale, Montresor lures Fortunato to his doom by offering this title type of wine
  • Spoiler alert! "The Cask of" this potent potable tells of a man sealing his enemy up behind a wall... alive!
  • "Luchresi cannot tell" this wine "from sherry"
  • "Luchesi cannot tell" this title pale, dry Spanish wine "from sherry"

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