Pedro Ximénez
An important Sherry grape, which produces an intensely sweet juice. It may be bottled as an unblended PX Sherry - so obviously a very sweet wine - or may be blended with other wines to produce a sweet style.
Pedro Ximénez
PX is at the peak of Sherry sweetness. It's dark, dense, lively, and sips slow and syrupy. It's made from the PX grape and often blended to sweeten other types of Sherries. A dessert wine with raisin-like aromas.
Pedro Ximénez is thought to be of Spanish origin and is still widely grown in Southern Spain.
PEDRO XIMÉNEZ: Red wine variety found in Australia and used, along with Palomino, to produce fortified wines. Has occasionally used alias name of Baxter's Sherry.
PEDRO XIMÉNEZ: White-wine producer variety widely grown in south-central Spain and mainly used in the production of sweet Sherry fortified wines.
Cream SherryA style of Sherry made by sweeting an Oloroso with large amounts of Pedro Ximénez.
Amontillados have a demi-sec taste because of the adding of a small percentage of Pedro Ximénez and few producers make this wine in the dry style ...
Sweet sherry is a variety of sherry created by blending dry sherry with sweet wines such as Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel.
Sweet sherry is usually served at room temperature, and typically accompanies dessert, much like a port wine.
Varieties ...
Soleo Spanish term meaning 'sunning', referring to the practice of exposing grapes to the sun in order to concentrate their sugars. It is currently restricted to the areas of Montilla-Moriles and Málaga, in order to obtain Pedro Ximénez wines.
Listán Blanco is grown in the Canary Islands where it may be used with Listán Negro to produce red, rosé and white varietal wines for early consumption. Also grown in Australia where it is found in mixed growth vineyards along with the Pedro Ximénez ...
Domecq's Harveys Bristol Cream, the world's best selling sherry, is the most famous brand in this style. It is a proprietary blend of fino, amontillado and oloroso wines, sweetened with Pedro Ximénez wine.
 See also: Red, Grape, Vineyard, Light, Oak
  
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