Serving sherry at the right temperature makes a significant difference to how it tastes. Here is the complete guide to temperature, glassware, how long sherry lasts once opened and food pairing by style.

Sherry is one of the great cooking wines, used across Spanish cuisine from seafood with fino to rich stews with oloroso. Here is everything you need to know about cooking with every sherry style.

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This dark, unctuous drink is fabulous at the end of a meal, poured over ice-cream or served in a glass as an accompaniment to a chunk of dark chocolate, a gooey brownie or an airy souffle.

Palo cortado pairs particularly well with mushrooms. Boeuf bourguignon with button mushrooms, portobello mushroom burger, or a Chinese-style soup with shiita.

Oloroso is the richest of the dry sherry styles, flavours of cinnamon, figs & hazelnuts in oloroso sherry make good pairings for all sorts of red meat – grilled chops to thick stews slow roasts mellowing in their own juices.

Try this unique spin on a classic cocktail, the sherry old fashioned offers a delightful alternative.

Young, dry sherry brings unexpected savouriness and nuttiness to gin. Dry sherry's heightened acidity makes for a brighter martini cocktail.

This Spanish rebujito cocktail brings together the flavours of mint, lemon and fino sherry, served over ice for a cooling tipple on a hot summer day.