The stigma of sweet sherry and the unimaginative wine-making ... Instead the style of wine will be called apera. ''Hopefully that will take away the stigma,'' Mr Birks said.

Port will be known simply as vintage, ruby or tawny, Australian ''champagne'' is already mostly described as sparkling wine and sherry has been renamed apera. Tokay, the sweet dessert wine ...

Depending on the grapes used and how the wine is aged, sherry can be dry or sweet; Fino, Oloroso, Amontillado, and Manzanilla sherries are all styles of dry sherry, whereas sweet sherries ...

The range of sherry styles is very broad but whether dry or sweet, sherry is great in cooked dishes. Dry styles (such as fino and manzanilla) are excellent in soups or used to steam fish and ...