Drink up in style this season, with this guide to what's trending at bars across the country
Sherry is another sip of the season that you must heed. Traditionally, associated with the creamy, sweet styles preferred by old aunts, this fortified wine from Cádiz in Andalusia, southern Spain, is finally beating stereotypes in Europe and the UK.
***** In London, I visit what is perhaps one of the best kept secrets of the city, at least as far as Indian tourists go. Gordon’s Wine Bar at Embankment is supposedly London’s oldest wine bar, established in the 1890s, and was frequented by the likes of Rudyard Kipling. Housed inside a subterranean cave cut from a rock, it has vaulted ceilings, is entirely lit by candles, and has Dickensian memorabilia, including old newspaper cuttings. There’s an award-winning wine-list, of which sherry is the star. Behind the bar the wine sits in casks, from which it is poured directly. The revival of interest in dry, premium sherry is a somewhat recent trend even in the UK, where sales of the older, creamy varieties had been plummeting over the decades. Now, with more tapas and sherry bars sprouting, dry and elegant sherry is on the rise, as we can see from people queuing up for glasses of manzanilla at Gordon’s.(This story appears in the 30 August, 2019 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)