I need Sherry for a Chinese recipe - anyone know what it is called or a substitute

[Georgina]

Please? asap

[Missy]

Vin de Xérès.... but if you look carefully I know some French supermarkets sell the Harvey Bristol cream range of sherry.... or the Sandeman range....

[Missy]

As a substitute Vin de Madère though it's a little stronger in taste but nothing that will be a nuisance to the recipe.....

[Lori]

Missy's right on all counts.  However, I have to say that finding the Vin de Xeres was a bit hard.  I do find it at Auchan (which is a long drive from my house), but have had to resort to the Madera stuff when I wasn't able to set out on the journey to Auchan.  She is right in that it worked fine.

 

 

[suein56]

We use 'pineau de charente' - which is an excellent substitute and available just about everywhere here ie Casino, Lidl, Super U - even though we are in Brittany and nowhere near the Charente. [:)]

Sue

[Lori]

Spg - yes, I have used that as a replacement too, with no problems.  And yes, it is much more readily available.  There are a couple of others located in the same section with the pineau that are called something else (names escape me), but they too work as a substitute.

 

[Georgina]

Cheers everyone!!

 

Georgina

[Judith]

I'm drinking a 3euro bottle of muscat de rivesaltes instead of the croft original I usually keep in for guests and when I feel like a treat -  only difference I can find if I follow one with the other is the muscat is fractionally sweeter, but you'd never know without tasting both one after the other.  Floc de Gascogne is also a possible, though my BIL couldn't taste any difference between muscat, pineau and floc when he tried them - but then he's a harvey's bristol cream man!

[Cassis]

Leclerc had several brands and types of Xerez, from fino to amontillado, manzanilla and oloroso.  From memory, Sandemans, Harveys and others I've never heard of and can't remember.  Plus a number of Madeiras.

[Lori]

Boy you're lucky Cassis.  Our LeClerc doesn't have anywhere near that type of selection.

 

[Cassis]

The Alençonnais are renowned alcos. [;-)]

PS This was part of their recent wine fair.

[Lori]

I'm sure we Vauclusiens can pull our weight too - so to speak, only round here you're more likely to find stocks of the cheap stuff.  Auchan is another story.  To walk through their liquor section is like taking a walk on another planet.  I've never heard of 50% of the stuff they stock.  I wouldn't know what to do with it - mix it, serve it on the rocks, warm it, blend it......

 

[Mistral]

I usually use muscat or any bottle of white I currently have open

[Cassis]

I know what you mean - I'll drink anything that comes to hand as well. [;-)]

[TWINKLE]

Floc du Gascogne is a good substitute. 

You can also put it in one of those water bottles that go around your neck - you know the ones that you bring back from Lourdes with holy water inside?  For emergencies - well that's what my friend Lorraine does anyway[:-))]