Editing Sherry (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Uncorking Old Sherry MET DP818491.jpg|thumb|''[[Uncorking Old Sherry]]'' by [[James Gillray]], 1805.]]
Many literary figures have written about sherry, including [[William Shakespeare]], [[Benito Pérez Galdós]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Literatura del Jerez: Benito Pérez Galdós y el Jerez |trans-title=Sherry Literature: Benito Pérez Galdós and Sherry |url=http://www.jerezdecine.com/perezgaldos.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713102057/http://www.jerezdecine.com/perezgaldos.htm |archive-date=13 July 2011 |website=jerezdecine.com |language=es}}</ref> and [[Edgar Allan Poe]] (in his story "[[The Cask of Amontillado]]").

Brothers [[Frasier Crane|Frasier]] and [[Niles Crane]] frequently consume sherry on the TV sitcom ''[[Frasier]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What kind of sherry did Frasier drink? |url=http://worldofbooze.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/what-kind-of-sherry |access-date=10 January 2015 |website=Henry's World of Booze|date=3 November 2010 }}</ref>

In the UK television show ''[[Yes Minister]]'', [[Jim Hacker]] frequently drinks sherry with [[Sir Humphrey Appleby]] and [[Bernard Woolley]] in his office.

Sherry, and Amontillado specifically, is heavily featured in season 3, episode 10 of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.

Sherry is frequently mentioned in the novel ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'', and plays an important role in the narrative: the spy Jim Prideaux is alerted to the presence of a double agent within his division when Russian [[KGB]] agents are able to correctly identify the brand of sherry that was consumed during a secret meeting of [[MI6]] personnel.

In John Mortimer's long-running ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' book and television series, Horace Rumpole continually complains about how various family doctors are served sherry by his wife Hilda when they visit. For example, in 'Rumpole and the Boat People':
 
{{Blockquote|Dr MacClintock, the slow-speaking, Edinburgh-bred quack to whom my wife, Hilda turns in times of sickness, took a generous gulp of the sherry she always pours him when he visits our mansion flat, (It's lucky that all his N.H.S. patients aren't so generous or the sick of Gloucester Road would be tended by a reeling medico, yellow about the gills and sloshed on amontillado.)}}

The historic sherry cellars have given rise to a breed of Spanish dog, the [[Ratonero Bodeguero Andaluz|Andalusian wine-cellar rat-hunting dog]], and [[Osborne bull|iconic bull posters]] used to advertise sherry.

The film ''[[Withnail and I]]'' features a much-quoted scene where the two protagonists are offered sherry by the lecherous Uncle Monty.