Solera system - A process used to systematically blend various vintages of Sherry.
Sommelier - A trained wine expert that often works in fine restaurants.
Sparkling wine - Effervescent wine containing significant levels of carbon dioxide.
Solera System
A system used in the creation of Spanish sherry to carefully blend new and older vintages of wine to achieve a consistent style.
Sommelier
A wine steward.
Description for a wine whose alcohol and sugar dominate the tannin and acidity, resulting in a wine without roughness or hardness.
Solera System ...
This is where the Solera system comes into play. Six or more barrels are stacked up. Each of the barrels contains wine of different ages, in different proportions. Wine is drawn from the oldest barrel, and replaced with the next oldest, and so on.
Sherry is made by an extremely complex method of fractional blending called the solera system. The grape variety used is principally Palomino, though small amounts of Pedro Ximenez may also be included.
Sherry is then aged in the solera system where new wine is put into wine barrels at the beginning of a series of 3 to 9 barrels.
Primarily a method employed in the production of Sherry, the solera system may also be found in use in Languedoc-Roussillon and anywhere else involved in the production of fortified wines such as Madeira, Marsala and Rutherglen (Australia).
Tiers of wine barrels containing Sherries of graded ages - a system of blending Sherry, whereby older wine is constantly refreshed by the addition of younger wine of the same type. (The solera system is also used for the production of certain ...
 See also: Solera, Spain, Grape, Sherry, Wine
  
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