Price: $8 (half bottle - 375ml)

Producer: Lustau

Origin: Jerez, Spain

Type of wine: Dry white wine made from the Palomino Fino grape

Try it with: A most original aperitif wine. Can be paired with roasted almonds, olives, Serrano ham

Date Reviewed: Feb. 2004

It’s a shame that more wine drinkers aren’t familiar with fine sherry. The sherry producers of Spain make painstaking efforts to create this vastly under appreciated wine. Sherry is a blended wine made up of several vintages (much like many champagnes). Lustau Papirusa is a delicate, dry wine that makes an ideal aperitif. This light straw colored sherry contains subtle hues of brown and almost shimmers in the glass. Unique, 'un-wine' scents of almond, bread dough and salt will pique your curiosity. Papirusa is very light-bodied and has a tangy taste, followed by roasted nut flavors and a long, woody finish. An extremely well made wine at a low price.