If a recipe calls for ‘Chinese cooking wine or dry sherry’, fino or manzanilla are good substitutes; sweet sherry is not.

Once you bring food into the equation, however, sherry makes perfect sense. The crispest, freshest styles are fino and manzanilla. They go particularly well with things like olives, prawns and ...

sherry is great in cooked dishes. Dry styles (such as fino and manzanilla) are excellent in soups or used to steam fish and shellfish. Medium sherries (including amontillado and oloroso ...